ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,534, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Holding system for a wheelchair in an aircraft" was invented by Hans-Gerhard Giesa (Hamburg, Germany), Matthias Breuer (Hamburg, Germany), Mark Herzog (Hamburg, Germany), Leonie Kamens (Hamburg, Germany) and Duruye Dogan Sari (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holding system for a wheelchair in an aircraft is proposed, including a plate-shaped base unit having first fastening elements at an underside configured to be connected to complementarily shaped second fastening elements in the form of seat rails on a floor or surrounding struct...