US Patent Issued to Safran Seats on May 20 for "Flexible structure for creating a rest space inside an aircraft cabin" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,638, issued on May 20, was assigned to Safran Seats (Plaisir, France).

"Flexible structure for creating a rest space inside an aircraft cabin" was invented by Arthur K. Glain (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for an aeroplane cabin includes a rear seat unit, a front seat unit, a passage for accessing an aisle way extending between the rear seat unit and the front seat unit, a removable flexible structure comprising, in a deployed state, an upper portion extending above the seat of the rear seat unit between the privacy shell of the rear seat unit and the privacy shell of the front seat unit, and a la...