ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,850, issued on April 15, was assigned to MBTE HOLDINGS SWEDEN AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Providing enhanced functionality in an interactive electronic technical manual" was invented by Ran Meriaz (Atlanta), Yoram Meriaz (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Alexander Tkachman (Holon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computer program products for transferring a performance of a procedure found in technical documentation for an item via an interactive electronic technical manual system (IETM) configured to provide electronic and credentialed access to the technical document...