US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on Oct. 7 for "Headrest with deployable oblique supports" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,842, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Headrest with deployable oblique supports" was invented by James S. Kash (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Kathryn Elizabeth Doyle (Chinnor, Great Britain) and Lawrie Bellwood (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headrest assembly and an aircraft passenger seat including a headrest assembly. In embodiments, the headrest assembly includes a center portion including left and right lateral receivers each defining an axis of rotation oblique to a plane of the center portion, and left and right ears each including a dogleg support rotatably received in its respectiv...