ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,874, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Light blocking curtains and related methods" was invented by Navid Changizi (Lynnwood, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Light blocking curtains may be selectively transitioned between a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration. The light blocking curtain may include a curtain body and a curtain header, and may be folded along respective curtain body pleats and header pleats in the stowed configuration. The curtain header may extend vertically from the upper end region of the light blocking curtain towards the lower end region of the light blocking ...