ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,792, issued on June 17, was assigned to Safran Seats USA LLC (Gainesville, Texas).
"Privacy panel for a passenger seat" was invented by Christopher D. Stewart (Saint Jo, Texas), Muhammad Ans Raffat (Denton, Texas) and Kevin M. Waters (Denton, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a privacy panel for a passenger includes a main body positioned between adjacent passenger seats and an attachment mechanism removably coupled to the main body. The attachment mechanism may include a first attachment member couplable to an armrest of the passenger seat and a second attachment member coupled to the first attachment member. ...