ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,057, issued on April 7, was assigned to TQ-Systems GmbH (Seefeld, Germany).

"Power management and distribution device" was invented by Dieter Mosebach (Mittelnkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a power management and distribution device (4) for powering a personal electronic device via a direct current outlet unit (6a; 6b; 6i) at a passenger seat in an airplane cabin, the power management and distribution device (4) comprising: a first interface (12) for receiving electrical supply power (10); a second interface (14) for supplying electrical supply power (10) received at said first interf...