US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on Feb. 10 for "Position-sensitive controller for aircraft seating" (North Carolina, Arizona, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,410, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Position-sensitive controller for aircraft seating" was invented by Mark B. Dowty (Rural Hall, N.C.), Noah Avram Meltz Weichselbaum (Prairie Village, Kan.), Sam Mecham (Lewisville, N.C.) and Nicole Sluder Whyte (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft seat pod with a reclining seat includes a controller interface that extends around a surface of the pod, include a surface obscured by the seat when in an upright position. The controller tracks the position and orientation of the seat and displays seat controls on the interface at a conven...