US Patent Issued to AMI Industries on March 18 for "Aircraft seat with nested energy attenuation guide system" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,253, issued on March 18, was assigned to AMI Industries Inc. (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

"Aircraft seat with nested energy attenuation guide system" was invented by Martin S. Day (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Chad Pacheco (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Douglas Foisie (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft seat assembly including stanchions defining elongated guide channels and elongated motion sleds nested in the guide channels and affixed to a seat bucket. An energy absorber implemented as a wire bender assembly is coupled between the stanchions and the motion sled. In use, the elongated guide channels guide...