US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on Sept. 22 for "Latch assembly with sliding latch and rotating catch" (North Carolina, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,742, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Latch assembly with sliding latch and rotating catch" was invented by Neil M. Ralph (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Ryan J. Suhre (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Bradley E. Burgess (Pfafftown, N.C.), Robert D. Wilkey (Atlanta) and Thomas W. Cahoon (Chamblee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latch assembly for securing a passenger seat tray table including a spring-loaded sliding latch and a spring-loaded rotating catch. The spring-loaded latch interacts with the spring-loaded catch such that, when the spring-loaded latch is closed, the tab engages the spring-loade...