US Patent Issued to GENTEX on Sept. 1 for "Unit load device monitoring system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,880, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.).

"Unit load device monitoring system" was invented by Yuhang Yang (Holland, Mich.), Michael Burns (Hudsonville, Mich.), Bethany D. Van Houten (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Thomas S. Wright (Holland, Mich.), Andrew D. Weller (Holland, Mich.), David I. Driscoll (Caledonia, Mich.), Xiaoxu Niu (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Bradley R. Hamlin (Allendale, Mich.) and Michael F. Behm (Zeeland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system for a plane fuselage including at least one storage unit defining an enclosed cargo storage space. At least one monitoring module is disposed p...