US Patent Issued to Safran Seats USA on Aug. 12 for "Passenger seat armrest with a multi-zone top surface" (French, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,544, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Safran Seats USA LLC (Gainesville, Texas).

"Passenger seat armrest with a multi-zone top surface" was invented by Daniel Abraham Chavarria Garcia (Chihuahua, Mexico), Jeremy Laurent (Saint-Mande, France) and Brice Bouffort (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An armrest for a passenger seat has a forward end, an aft end opposite from the forward end, and a top surface extending from the forward end to the aft end. The top surface includes a first zone and a second zone, and a curvature of the first zone of the top surface is different from a curvature of the second zone of the top surface. In ...