ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,585, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Passenger compartment" was invented by Tobias Schmidt-Schaffer (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger compartment for an aircraft cabin, which has an enclosing wall and a compartment space formed by the enclosing wall and in which at least one passenger seating device is arranged. The enclosing wall has wall sections which extend from the floor at least up to the head height of a standing passenger. At least a part of the wall sections are designed as hybrid walls, each of which has a lower wall segment and an upper wall segment,...