ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,579, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Panasonic Avionics Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for managing passenger seat attributes during flight take-off and landing" was invented by Lam Hoang (Ladera Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a transportation vehicle. One method includes retrieving data associated with one or more seat attributes associated with one or more passenger seats of an aircraft; identifying a first attribute associated with a passenger seat that does not meet a configurable threshold condition defined for the first attribute for aircraft takeoff, landing o...