ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,882, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Lavatory door system for a vehicle" was invented by Christian Stolle (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lavatory door system for a vehicle, in particular an aircraft, with a lavatory door; a pneumatic actuator configured to open and close the lavatory door based on a differential pressure, wherein the pneumatic actuator is coupled to a vacuum toilet system of the vehicle to generate the differential pressure; and an operating interface configured to receive a user control operation and to selectively release the differential pressure fro...