US Patent Issued to ZIM IP America on Sept. 9 for "Seating assembly with staggered arrangement" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,937, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ZIM IP America Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Seating assembly with staggered arrangement" was invented by John Williamson (Greensboro, N.C.) and Mitchell Rife (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seating assembly for a passenger aircraft. The seating assembly includes a plurality of passenger seats including a first passenger seat and a second passenger seat. Each of the passenger seats includes an articulated seat pan to provide for moving the passenger seat between a first upright position and a second reclined position. In addition, the second passenger seat may be positioned in a stag...