ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,088, issued on Dec. 9.

"System and method of creating luggage manifest using B-type message, airline code and flight data" was invented by Craig Mateer (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system and method for creating a luggage manifest using a b-type message, an airline code, and flight data, the method including: a) identifying, by at least one of at least one processor, a baggage source message (BSM) associated with an arrival of a luggage item of a passenger, wherein the BSM comprises an airport code associated with an airport and travel data of a first mode of travel carrier of the luggage item; b) matchi...