US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on March 4 for "Inflatable separating region for a vehicle interior" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,608, issued on March 4, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Inflatable separating region for a vehicle interior" was invented by Hans-Gerhard Giesa (Hamburg, Germany), Beke Haenel (Hamburg, Germany), Maximilian Grom (Hamburg, Germany), Kathrin Thielbeer (Hamburg, Germany), Jacqueline Mader (Hamburg, Germany) and Stefan Wild (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflatable separating region for a vehicle interior, in particular for a passenger cabin of an aircraft, includes a supporting structure with interconnected inflatable tubes made of a flexible material and arranged, in an inflated state, t...