US Patent Issued to Safran Seats USA on March 18 for "Passenger seat track fitting systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,042, issued on March 18, was assigned to Safran Seats USA LLC (Gainesville, Texas).

"Passenger seat track fitting systems and methods" was invented by Charles Michael Parker (Irvine, Calif.), Romain Tranier (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Reza Mansouri (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for securing a passenger seat to a track can include a fitting coupled with or forming a portion of the passenger seat; a shear plunger coupled with the fitting including a shear plunger body defining a shear plunger locking surface; a guide pin assembly that may include a guide pin movable along a lift axis between a retracted stat...