US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on May 13 for "Leg restraint system with compliance indicator" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,960, issued on May 13, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Leg restraint system with compliance indicator" was invented by Rahul Merh (Hyderabad, India), Lakshmana Kumar Marineni (Hyderabad, India), Tippanna Channabasappa Shetgar (Hyderabad, India) and Mark B. Dowty (Rural Hall, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leg restraint system for a side facing seat provided in an aircraft or other conveyance. The system includes a leg restraining device including a panel configured to deploy along a deployment path when a sensed condition is met, a sensor configured to monitor the deployment path, and an indicator co...