ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,196, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for protecting surfaces of components within an internal cabin of a vehicle" was invented by Aaron M. Forehand (Snohomish, Wash.), Petros G. Djiovanis (Everett, Wash.), Harold Samuel Phipps (Lake Forest Park, Wash.), Jeffrey Lee Kelsey (Snohomish, Wash.) and Nicole Delores Fellows (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for protecting one or more surfaces of one or more components within an internal cabin of a vehicle include panels configured to removably couple together in relation to the one or more surfaces of the one...