ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,040, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Aircraft passenger door handle mechanism" was invented by Mitchell Loren Ray Mellor (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods provide for a door handle mechanism including a vent panel, a handle lever, and a four bar mechanism. The handle lever has a lift-to-open configuration. The four bar mechanism is coupled to the handle lever and the vent panel. The four bar mechanism is to time sequence operations to close an aircraft passenger door, latch the aircraft passenger door, lock the aircraft passenger door, and close the v...