US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on July 8 for "Row of passenger seats convertible to a bed" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,317, issued on July 8, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Row of passenger seats convertible to a bed" was invented by Aditya Sharma (Bangalore, India), Krishna Chaitanya Prathipati (Hyderabad, India) and Ravindra Ramulu Kandukuri (Secunderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A row of passenger seats convertible to a bed. The row includes a frame assembly supporting a plurality of laterally adjacent passenger seats. In embodiments, each seat includes a backrest having a first portion and a second portion movable relative to the first portion, a seat pan movable between a first position for seating and a s...