US Patent Issued to B/E AEROSPACE on Feb. 3 for "Self-locking mounting insert" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,968, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston Salem, N.C.).

"Self-locking mounting insert" was invented by Sambasiva Rao Kodati (Krishna District, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-locking mounting insert is provided for attaching a panel to a vehicle structure. A tab of the panel may be inserted into a keyway of the insert. The tab may slide between a latched and unlatched position within the keyway. When in the latched position, a latching member prevents the tab from being removed from the keyway. By moving a magnet proximate to the latching member, the latching member may be magnetically impelled to ...