US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations, AIRBUS on March 17 for "Transport of passengers with reduced mobility" (German, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,982, issued on March 17, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) and AIRBUS SAS (Blagnac, France).

"Transport of passengers with reduced mobility" was invented by Hans-Gerhard Giesa (Hamburg, Germany), Dirk Meiranke (Hamburg, Germany), Jakob Payk (Hamburg, Germany) and Paul Martinez (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A restraining device for restraining a wheelchair in a cabin area on board of an aircraft. The device comprises a beam-like base structure being elongate in a beam extension direction, at least two floor connectors attached to the base structure and at least one restraining connector attac...