US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on June 9 for "Composite beam for aircraft seat frame" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,579, issued on June 9, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Composite beam for aircraft seat frame" was invented by Mark R. Gurvich (Middletown, Conn.), Paolo Ballocchi (Newcastle, Great Britain), David C. McConnell (Advance, N.C.), Rebecca R. Stoner (Lewisville, N.C.) and Marc F. Pearce (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite support beam may be hollow, where the composite support beam includes an external fiber-reinforced polymer-matrix shell and one or more pultruded fiber-reinforced polymer-matrix composite parts. One or more walls of the external shell may define an internal cavity. T...