US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on May 19 for "Deployable armrest for an aircraft seat" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,290, issued on May 19, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Deployable armrest for an aircraft seat" was invented by Arjun Koustubhan (Hyderabad, India), Raghavendra Kottem (Hyderabad, India) and Sambasiva Rao Kodati (Vinjaram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft seat includes a primary seating section including a primary seat pan and seatback. The aircraft seat further includes one or more deployable armrest assemblies, where each armrest assembly is configured to actuate between a stowed and deployed position. Each armrest assembly includes an actuator sub-system including a locking assembly and an...