US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on May 13 for "Meal table for oblique seat installations and oblique seating arrangements" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,962, issued on May 13, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Meal table for oblique seat installations and oblique seating arrangements" was invented by Tracy N. Pence (King, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meal table assembly readily adaptable for use with various oblique seat installations. The meal table assembly installs on a seat-side console, stows openly against a fuselage wall or aircraft centerline, rotates to a deployed position, and further deploys to an expanded condition. In embodiments, the meal table is bi-fold and includes at least one of vertical and fore/aft adjustment. The meal table asse...