ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,168, issued on July 29, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
"Seat bottom assembly with self tensioning diaphragm and under seat access" was invented by Ryan J. Suhre (Winston-Salem, N.C.), David J. Poole (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Javier Valdes de la Garza (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat bottom assembly including a first frame subassembly and a second frame subassembly supported by and rotatably coupled to the first frame subassembly about a rotation axis, the second frame subassembly configured to rotate about the rotation axis between a first position and a second position. A fabric d...