ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,430, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Piper Networks Inc. (San Diego).
"Positional ticketing" was invented by Robert Hanczor (San Diego) and Duane Maxwell (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, one aspect disclosed features a system, comprising: a hardware processor; and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by the hardware processor to perform operations comprising: identifying a seat in which a passenger is seated in a conveyance having multiple seats based on wireless signals exchanged with a device of a passenger; determining a payment status of the ticket of the pa...