US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on Nov. 4 for "Converting economy seat to full flat bed by dropping seat back frame" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,650, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Converting economy seat to full flat bed by dropping seat back frame" was invented by Krishna Chaitanya Prathipati (Hyderabad, India), Ravindra Ramulu Kandukuri (Secunderabad, India) and Ganesh Pralhad Bawaskar (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat row including a plurality of seats supported by a seat frame. Each seat includes a seat pan, a backrest, and a backrest frame positioned in surrounding relation to the backrest. The backrest frame reclines with the backrest and deploys away from the backrest to a position overlaying the seat ...