US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on Aug. 5 for "Economy seat to full bed" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,984, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Economy seat to full bed" was invented by Krishna Chaitanya Prathipati (Hyderabad, India) and Ravindra Ramulu Kandukuri (Secunderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An economy aircraft seat includes a telescopically extensible seat pan frame. Multiple telescoping sections extend forward with stops to prevent overextension. A forward edge of the extensible seat pan frame includes clips to affix the extensible seat pan frame to a neighboring passenger seat frame. The extensible seat pan frame includes supports that transversely span the extensible s...