US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on Jan. 13 for "Meal table with rotational lifting assistance" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,359, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Meal table with rotational lifting assistance" was invented by Zane M. Yates (Clemmons, N.C.), Mark A. Vanhoy (Hamptonville, N.C.) and Troy R. Blackburn (Elkin, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meal table assembly for use in a seating arrangement including a side console. In embodiments, the meal table assembly includes a fixed column, a sleeve rotatably mounted on the fixed column, a support arm mounted to the sleeve, and a meal table mounted on the support arm. The assembly further includes a rotational lifting mechanism including at least one f...