US Patent Issued to Hopper on July 1 for "Database operations and analysis for virtual interline of travel routes with feedback loop" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,840, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hopper Inc. (Montreal).

"Database operations and analysis for virtual interline of travel routes with feedback loop" was invented by David G. D'Alessandro (Atlanta) and Stephen Charles Pearson (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for generating and displaying candidate virtual interline routes for travel between an origin location and a destination location. The system identifies a set of candidate virtual interline routes based on the origin location and the destination location, each including multiple segments offered by different carriers that lack an interl...