US Patent Issued to B/E AEROSPACE on Dec. 23 for "Hinges" (Philippine Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,896, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston Salem, N.C.).

"Hinges" was invented by Jo-Ann Canja Perez (Calamba, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hinge for hingedly mounting a door onto a fixed element. The hinge includes a pivot, and first and second hinge plates. The pivot has a central axis (AP). The first hinge plate comprises a stop element, and the second hinge plate comprises first and second stop surfaces. When the hinge is in a fully closed configuration the first stop surface abuts the stop element. When the hinge is in a fully open configuration the second stop surface abuts the stop elem...