US Patent Issued to Elevate Aircraft Seating on Sept. 16 for "Latch lock assembly with fault monitoring, and closure structure having such a latch lock assembly" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,183, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Elevate Aircraft Seating LLC (Bothell, Wash.).

"Latch lock assembly with fault monitoring, and closure structure having such a latch lock assembly" was invented by Mark Douglas (Newport, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latch lock assembly to facilitate movement of a closure structure between a stowed position and an open position. The latch lock assembly includes fault detection and electro-mechanical monitoring of components of the latch lock assembly. In the event of a detected fault operating condition by the latch lock assembly, a manual override mechanism may be employed t...