US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on Nov. 3 for "Redundant rail cover assembly with failure indicators" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,419, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Redundant rail cover assembly with failure indicators" was invented by Mark Vanhoy (Hamptonville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A redundant rail cover and indicator system may include one or more rail and carriage failure indicator assemblies. Each assembly may include a failure indicator configured to identify when a primary sub-assembly fails and a rotational sub-assembly configured to rotate the failure indicator between a stowed and deployed position. When the primary sub-assembly fails, the rotational sub-assembly may be configured to cause th...