ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,131, issued on March 25, was assigned to S&S Numerical Control Inc. (Northridge, Calif.).
"Tray table with detent mechanism" was invented by Johnny A. Satterfield (Chatsworth, Calif.) and Dane Sandifer (Northridge, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detent mechanism is provided for a tray table of an aircraft. The detent mechanism includes an actuator configured to move along with a table leaf of the tray table as the table leaf rotates between a stowed position and a deployed position of the table leaf. The detent mechanism includes a follower biased toward an open position of the follower. The follower is configured to be mov...