ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,597, issued on April 8, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).
"Dual track light-limiting header assembly" was invented by Timothy D. Rittenhouse Jr. (Summerville, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A header assembly for an aircraft cabin comprises a plurality of track, each track configured to engage with separate movable panel made from an opaque material, with the separate movable panels deployed within the header assembly tracks to form an enclosed space defined by the deployed moveable panels, and with the movable panels made from an opaque material to block light from entering an adjacent region of an aircraft ca...