US Patent Issued to B/E AEROSPACE on June 16 for "Aircraft lavatory with integrated air ionizer" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,922, issued on June 16, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Aircraft lavatory with integrated air ionizer" was invented by Hemanth Raghav Gajendra (Bangalore, India), Sai Sankalp Shekar (Bengaluru, India) and Skandan Berikai Kuppan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft lavatory is disclosed herein. The aircraft lavatory includes an air duct including an air inlet and an air outlet, the air outlet extending into an interior of the aircraft lavatory, an ion emitter coupled to the air outlet, and a control unit electronically coupled to the ion emitter, the control unit configured to control...