ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,541, issued on July 14.

"Passenger cubicle assembly" was invented by Daniel Parish (Cwmbran, Great Britain) and Mark Douglas (Cwmbran, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger cubicle assembly including a door, a door support assembly having a sliding mechanism, the sliding mechanism arranged to support the door such that the door is translatable relative to the door support assembly along a first axis; a wall containing the door support assembly, the wall having an opening sized to permit translation of the door through the opening; wherein the door support assembly is moveable into the opening and, while in the open...