US Patent Issued to Thales Avionics on July 29 for "Docking station storing remote control for inflight entertainment systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,218, issued on July 29, was assigned to Thales Avionics Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Docking station storing remote control for inflight entertainment systems" was invented by Kevin Judd (Irvine, Calif.), Bipin Bopaliya (Irvine, Calif.), Sam Yoon (Irvine, Calif.), Ton Do (Corona, Calif.), John J. Daly (Irvine, Calif.) and Brian Johnson (Dana Point, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A docking station for storing a handset. A storage tray has a first recessed area for storing the handset and a second recessed area for a passenger to grip a top surface of the stored handset. The docking station includes a second latch extended into the s...