US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on Aug. 5 for "Arrangements of lie flat seats with oblique front row" (North Carolina, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,983, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Arrangements of lie flat seats with oblique front row" was invented by Mark B. Dowty (Rural Hall, N.C.) and Oscar Ruiz Lara (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides layouts of columns of lie flat passenger seats for an aircraft cabin. Each column includes a first row, such as a front row, including at least one oblique seat, a second row including at least one forward facing seat, and at least one further row including at least one forward facing seat. None of the seat rows, other than the first rows, include an obl...