ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,119, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GEVEN S.P.A. (Nola, Italy).
"Deployable tray table" was invented by Alberto Veneruso (Nola, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployable tray table, of the type revolvingly constrained to a support and movable between a horizontal operating position and an upwardly rotated position, comprises a distal portion, near to the support, and a proximal portion which are placed side by side and adjacent, divided by a separation in which adjacent edges of the two portions are joined by means of respective hinges, so that the proximal portion could rotate by 180deg from a folded position in a config...