ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,740, issued on Aug. 5.

"System and method for expanded baggage information messages" was invented by Craig Mateer (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes a method for luggage management involving electronically acquiring an originating hardcopy bag tag identifier (OP-BTI) from a luggage item's bag tag associated with an originating travel carrier. The method uses the OP-BTI as a unique identifier to query a database for expanded baggage information messages that enumerate a passenger's travel path using a different mode of travel from the originating travel carrier. This process includes checking in a lu...