US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on May 26 for "Passenger seat tray table" (Philippine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,219, issued on May 26, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Passenger seat tray table" was invented by Krisha Chrystelle Singson Cotoner (Tanauan City, Philippines) and Angelica Macalintal Jusi (Tanauan City, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger seat assembly for an aircraft includes a seat having a front side and a back side separated from one another in a depthwise direction, and a first lateral side and a second lateral side separated from one another in a widthwise direction; and an armrest located at one of the first lateral side or the second lateral side of the seat. The armrest includes ...