US Patent Issued to B/E AEROSPACE on May 12 for "System and method for controlling flap of trash receptacle of aircraft lavatory" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,839, issued on May 12, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston Salem, N.C.).

"System and method for controlling flap of trash receptacle of aircraft lavatory" was invented by Suresh Babu Kappa Venkata (Bengaluru, India), Srikanth Annumandla (Hyderabad, India) and Ashish Shrikhande (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for controlling a compression action of a trash receptacle of an aircraft lavatory. Generally, the systems, methods, and articles of manufacture disclosed and described herein facilitate controlled opening and closing actuations of a flap of a trash receptacle ...