ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,651, 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, computing devices, and/or computing entities for displaying content found in technical documentation via an IETM viewer. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided comprising identifying textual content describing a part for the item, each instanc...