US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on Oct. 21 for "Passenger seat with forward adjustable backrest" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,871, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Passenger seat with forward adjustable backrest" was invented by Seeta R Kancharla (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger seat, for instance an aircraft passenger seat, including a seat pan, a backrest frame coupled to the seat pan, a backrest supported by the backrest frame, and an adjustment mechanism coupling the backrest to the backrest frame, the adjustment mechanism operable to translate the backrest forward or aft relative to the backrest frame to change a position of the backrest relative to the seat pan. In use, translati...