ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,239, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
"Integrated seat assembly with headrest and neck support" was invented by Sambasiva Rao Kodati (Vinjaram, India), Chandra Sekhar Gudla (Hyderabad, India) and Guruswamy Prasad Gundra (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated seat assembly including a fixed subassembly attachable to a seat backrest, a headrest subassembly configured to translate along a rail of the fixed subassembly, and a neck support subassembly also configured to translate along the rail, independently of the translation of the headrest subassembly. Each of the hea...