ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,013, issued on July 1, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Seats with display systems" was invented by Mathew Chapdelaine (Fort Worth, Texas) and Cameron Ayres (Fort Worth, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft has a seat that has at least one of (1) a nonplanar back surface profile and a touch sensitive film display system carried by the seat and configured to conform to the nonplanar back surface profile and (2) a privacy screen selectively stowed within an interior of the seat. An aircraft has a pilot seat, a passenger seat disposed aft relative to the pilot seat, and a holographic display syste...