US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on Oct. 7 for "Adjustable width passenger seat" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,843, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Adjustable width passenger seat" was invented by Sambasiva Rao Kodati (Vinjaram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger seat including laterally repositionable armrests wherein a seat bottom width adjusts automatically according to the lateral armrest position. Adjustment mechanisms positioned on the opposing lateral sides of the seat carry the armrests and are driven inward and outward to laterally reposition the armrests. In some embodiments, the adjustment mechanism includes levers drive by a connecting frame coupled to a motion driver such ...