US Patent Issued to AMI Industries on July 21 for "Transformable cabin attendant aircraft seat" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,495, issued on July 21, was assigned to AMI Industries Inc. (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

"Transformable cabin attendant aircraft seat" was invented by Archana Eswaran (Bangalore, India), Narain Jayaprakash (Bangalore, India) and Chad R. Pacheco (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transformable canopy assembly includes one or more canopy mounts configured to couple the transformable canopy to a frame of a seat. The transformable canopy includes a canopy sub-assembly configured to rotate between a stowed and a deployed position. The canopy sub-assembly includes a canopy configured to provide lighting or sound mitiga...