ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,444, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
"Systems and methods for monitoring seating in an aircraft" was invented by Soumya Ranjan Swain (Cuttack, India) and Kumar Neeraj (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring seating in an aircraft. In embodiments, a cabin controller is communicatively coupled to a plurality of local seat controllers each operable for controller the position of actuator driven movable seat components. In embodiments, the cabin controller communicates to the flight crew, for instance via a graphical user interface, status compliance o...