US Patent Issued to Safran Seats on Sept. 9 for "Seat arrangements, in particular for an aircraft cabin" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,938, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Safran Seats (Plaisir, France).

"Seat arrangements, in particular for an aircraft cabin" was invented by Julien Layet (La Chapelle Saint Ursin, France) and Julien Fosset (Bourges, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat arrangement for an aircraft cabin includes a first column of seats extending on one side of an aisle, a second column of seats extending on an opposite side of the aisle, and a door. The seats of the second column are staggered with respect to the seats of the first column. The door can move between a stowed position and a deployed position in which the door closes an uppe...