US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Dec. 23 for "Aircraft interior monument enclosure" (South Carolina, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,234, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Aircraft interior monument enclosure" was invented by Sean Richard Hesslewood (Summerville, S.C.), Paul Thomas Bridgeman (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) and Christopher Joseph Ruhner (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monument assembly for a vehicle and method for attaching a monument assembly to an aircraft. The monument assembly is capable of being a heavily loaded interior monument enclosure for an aircraft that includes a load bearing structural frame to be attached to a floor of the aircraft. The monument assembly includes a plurality of support membe...