US Patent Issued to AIRBUS ATLANTIC on Sept. 8 for "Convertible aircraft sofa with backrest that can fit beneath a given height" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,001, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AIRBUS ATLANTIC (Rochefort, France).

"Convertible aircraft sofa with backrest that can fit beneath a given height" was invented by Frederic Cloet (Rochefort, France), Mark Collins (Collex-Bossy, Switzerland), Alexandra Collins (Collex-Bossy, Switzerland) and Jean-Baptiste Bruyere (Collex-Bossy, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sofa for a passenger transport vehicle such as an aircraft, including a seat section, a backrest and a structure supporting them, the sofa being convertible into at least two positions each having a total usable surface area by the passenger: a sitting positio...