US Patent Issued to FACC on Oct. 7 for "Luggage compartment for an aircraft" (Austrian, Null Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,841, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FACC AG (Ried im Innkreis, Austria).

"Luggage compartment for an aircraft" was invented by Bernhard Kammerer (Zell an der Pram, Austria) and Lukas Klembara (Bratislava, Slovak Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A luggage compartment for an aircraft, comprising: a luggage compartment housing enclosing a storage space for a piece of hand luggage, a door part, a pivoting device, by means of which the door part can be pivoted between a closed position closing a loading opening of the luggage compartment housing and an open position releasing the loading opening of the luggage compartment housing...