US Patent Issued to Life In the Air on May 13 for "Distributed service-and-transaction system" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,760, issued on May 13, was assigned to Life In the Air Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Distributed service-and-transaction system" was invented by Bayram Annakov (Seattle), Sergey Pronin (Minusinsk, Russia) and Timur Abdukerimov (Krasnogorsk, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current document is directed to semi-automated service-and-transaction systems that provide information, communications, and transaction services to passengers traveling within various types of vehicles, including commercial airliners. The currently disclosed semi-automated service-and-transaction systems interconnect passenger smart phones, laptops, tablets, a...