US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on April 7 for "Aircraft galley moveable countertop" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,058, issued on April 7, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Aircraft galley moveable countertop" was invented by Stefan Amstutz (Hamburg, Germany), Kathrin Thielbeer (Hamburg, Germany), Patrick Timke (Hamburg, Germany), Tobias Dahms (Hamburg, Germany), Jessica Kropp (Hamburg, Germany), Christian SchuBeler (Hamburg, Germany), Robert Kirsten (Hamburg, Germany) and Stephan Schniegler (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an aircraft galley. In order to provide an aircraft galley with improvements for operation and ergonomics, a galley module for an aircraft is provided...