ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,316, issued on March 3, was assigned to Safran Seats GB Ltd. (Cwmbran, Great Britain), Safran Seats (Plaisir, France) and Safran Aerosystems Mexico S.R.L. de Capital Variable (Chihuahua, Mexico).

"Aircraft cabin" was invented by James Byron Woodington (Cwmbran, Great Britain), Jose Madrigal (Chihuahua, Mexico), Cristina Bermudez (Chihuahua, Mexico), Cho Kiu Heather Leung (Cwmbran, Great Britain), Ryan Jones (Cwmbran, Great Britain) and Paul Hurstel (Plaisir, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an aircraft cabin comprising an aisle defining an aisle axis, a plurality of aircraft passenger seats arrange...