ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,905, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Configurable aircraft aisle flooring system" was invented by Trenton Keil (Haysville, Kan.), Jeremy Greene (Clearwater, Kan.), Robert Bair (Wichita, Kan.) and Jeffrey Johannsmeyer (Wichita, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configurable aircraft aisle flooring system which includes a flat floor configuration and a drop-down aisle configuration. The flat floor configuration provides floor panels positioned to span across a trough of an aircraft aisle to form a level surface between upper sections of an aircraft aisle. The drop-down aisle configurat...