ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,127, issued on March 25, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).
"Convertible aircraft cabin monument" was invented by Darren Carl McIntosh (Mukilteo, Wash.) and Jeff Siegmeth (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Convertible monuments for aircraft cabins that house at least one lavatory can comprise moveable wall sections that can be reversibly deployed from a stowed configuration to a deployed configuration to form a temporary convertible monument having a monument footprint that overlaps at least a portion of an aircraft interior egress pathway during flight, and efficiently uses previously unused aircraft i...