US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on July 1 for "Beverage container holder for use during taxi, takeoff, and landing of an aircraft" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,152, issued on July 1, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Beverage container holder for use during taxi, takeoff, and landing of an aircraft" was invented by Oscar Ruiz Lara (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage cubby for an aircraft including a housing having a front opening and an interior space accessible through the front opening, a fixed retention bar extending across the front opening, and a beverage container holder positioned in the interior space. In embodiments, the beverage container holder includes a bearing block having a bearing surface, a positioning magnet mounted to the bear...