ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,371, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Optimizing a reservation user interface" was invented by Kira Chung (Atlanta) and Ajayan Subramanian (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are described for optimizing a reservation workflow in a user interface. In a calendar user interface element, a user can move from a single day reservation to multi-day reservation without having to choose a multi-day reservation to begin the reservation workflow. Additionally, the user interface can instantly recover from an unavailable booking without requiring the user to navigate to another user int...