US Patent Issued to B/E AEROSPACE on June 24 for "Intelligent centralized lavatory controller architecture for touchless lavatory" (Washington, Connecticut, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,968, issued on June 24, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston Salem, N.C.).

"Intelligent centralized lavatory controller architecture for touchless lavatory" was invented by John Edquist (Milwaukee), Sanjay Bajekal (Simsbury, Conn.), Frank Hashberger (Snohomish, Wash.) and Fangzhong Guo (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for touchless control of a lavatory of an aircraft includes at least one sensor located in the lavatory and configured to detect detected data corresponding to the lavatory. The system further includes at least one actuator or light source located in the lavatory and configured to perform...