ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,563, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston Salem, N.C.).
"Method and system for operation of safety features of aircraft galley containers" was invented by Frederik Adrian Stephan Panjer (Maarsbergen, Netherlands) and Arnau Castillo Gonzalez (Maarssen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided herein an aircraft including at least one aircraft galley container and a controller. Each one of the at least one aircraft galley container includes a safety feature having a first mode and a second mode, and a controller for automatically selecting one of the first mode and second mode of the safety...