US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on May 20 for "Contiguous passenger seat rows configured to form a bed" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,639, issued on May 20, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Contiguous passenger seat rows configured to form a bed" was invented by Krishna Chaitanya Prathipati (Hyderabad, India), Ravindra Ramulu Kandukuri (Secunderabad, India) and Aditya Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger seating arrangement including contiguous rows configured to form a bed. Each passenger seat in the first row includes a deployable bed extension. In use, each deployed bed extension resides in a plane of a seat pan in an aft positioned row. At least one support deploys relative to its respective seat pan to s...