ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,178, issued on July 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 performing functionality requiring network connectivity in an interactive electronic technical manual system (IETM) configured to provide electronic and credentialed access to technical documentation for an item. In one embodiment...