ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,030, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
"System and method of arranging carry-on luggage in overhead compartments of passenger vehicles" was invented by Heba Abdullatif Kurdi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Mohannad Yousef Abdulghani (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system for handling carry-on luggage in vehicles provides for the storage and retrieval of carry-on luggage in overhead storage bins of passenger vehicles such as airplanes, trains, and buses. A plurality of overhead compartments are mounted within a body of a vehicle and are respectively selectively covered ...