US Patent Issued to Diehl Aviation Laupheim, Diehl Aviation Gilching on March 18 for "System, lavatory, airplane and method for controlling a lavatory door by a user and authorized entities" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,926, issued on March 18, was assigned to Diehl Aviation Laupheim GmbH (Laupheim, Germany) and Diehl Aviation Gilching GmbH (Gilching, Germany).

"System, lavatory, airplane and method for controlling a lavatory door by a user and authorized entities" was invented by Bjorn Muller (Hamburg, Germany), Florian Zager-Rode (Buxtehude, Germany) and Jorg Engelhardt (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control and information system is for a lavatory of an aircraft, where the lavatory has a door. The system contains a door actuator for opening and closing, a lock actuator for locking and unlocking the door, a control device for ...