US Patent Issued to Airbnb on Oct. 7 for "Integrating private reservations with publicly-offered ticketed reservations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,323, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Airbnb Inc. (San Francisco).

"Integrating private reservations with publicly-offered ticketed reservations" was invented by Benjamin Chute (San Francisco), Eric Ertmann (San Francisco), Andrew Hunt (San Francisco), Kristen Jaber (San Francisco), Mojtaba Mehrara (San Francisco), Pauline Nguyen (San Francisco), James Ostrowski (San Francisco), Gabriel Radovsky (Los Angeles) and Yunshan Weng (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the implementation of a pricing structure for the private booking of travel experiences. An experience is offered publicly, so as t...