ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,913, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Aircraft section and aircraft having a monument with two lavatories" was invented by Michael Meyer (Hamburg, Germany) and Thomas Canton (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft section, between a cockpit and a cabin, comprises an aisle to access to the cockpit from the cabin, and a monument extending in a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction. The monument includes a first lavatory, a second lavatory adjacent thereto in the transverse direction and comprising the aisle, a wall separating the first lavatory from the seco...