US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on May 5 for "Method for interfacing passenger electronic devices with passenger controllable functions and aircraft cabin network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,290, issued on May 5, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for interfacing passenger electronic devices with passenger controllable functions and aircraft cabin network" was invented by Bing Chen (Hamburg, Germany) and Kai Moller (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for interfacing passenger electronic devices with passenger controllable functions involves transmitting, by a PED, a seat-based identification token to a cabin server of a passenger aircraft; requesting, by the cabin server in response to the transmission of the seat-based identification token, completion of a challenge pr...