ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,728, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SURGETECH M LLC (Lago, Portugal).

"Computer-implemented interface for bookings for transportation services" was invented by Andrew Loch (Worongary, Australia), Helen Johnson (Red Hill, Australia), Geoffrey Toogood (Forest Lake, Australia) and Daniel Paul Ruul (Labrador, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of managing online bookings for transportation services inventory is provided. The computer-implemented method establishes a channel interface that provides bidirectional communication between at least one server computing device and a vendor computing device...