ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,523, issued on June 10, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Self-disinfecting portable physical partitions for aircraft interiors" was invented by Sanith Kurumpilavu Subramanian (Bangalore, India), Raja Mandava (Rammurthy Nagar, India) and Dharamveer Surya Prakash Bathla (Sonipat, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-disinfecting partition system is disclosed. The system includes a housing, and an attachment element configured to attach the housing to a surface. The system further includes one or more arms configured to deploy from a stored position an extended position. The system further includes a fle...