US Patent Issued to AIRBUS ATLANTIC on Oct. 28 for "Double bench seat for aircraft passengers" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,359, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AIRBUS ATLANTIC (Rochefort, France).

"Double bench seat for aircraft passengers" was invented by Alexandra Collins (Rochefort, France), Mark Collins (Rochefort, France), Jean-Baptiste Bruyere (Versoix, Switzerland) and Matthias Doare (Carouge, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure concerns a double bench seat for transport craft passengers having a sitting configuration and a lying configuration, and including a substantially vertical shell surrounding two independent twin seats. The two twin seats are oriented along the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, the two twin seats ...