US Patent Issued to Panasonic Avionics on April 7 for "On-board luggage space availability indicators" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,074, issued on April 7, was assigned to Panasonic Avionics Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"On-board luggage space availability indicators" was invented by Cesar Tejeda (Irvine, Calif.), Annie Lu (Irvine, Calif.), Shreyang Prajapati (Mission Viejo, Calif.), William Brinser (Lake Forest, Calif.), Danila Larin (Irvine, Calif.) and Jeff Santiago (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for configuring and using on-board luggage space availability indicators are provided. An example method includes initializing multiple sensors, each of which includes a receiver, in an interior space of an overhead bin,...