ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,271, issued on May 27, was assigned to AMERICAN AIRLINES INC. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Table-driven segment systems and methods for generating passenger information messages" was invented by John Emmett Buxton Jr. (Euless, Texas), Robert R. McCall (Mansfield, Texas), Muhammad Hafeez (Grand Prairie, Texas) and Cary Castle (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Passenger information messages ("PIMs") are generated using table-driven segment systems and methods. Message segments may be paired with token names. Passenger information associated with an airline flight are substituted for the token names. The passenger information and message ...