ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,059, issued on April 7, was assigned to Air Black Box Technologies LLC (Miami).

"System and method for dynamic real-time cross-selling of passenger oriented travel products" was invented by Timothy O'Neil-Dunne (Kirkland, Wash.) and Paul Addy (Bramhall, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for cross-selling passenger-oriented travel products from a sponsor company and other travel product providers to users, by normalizing the products and dynamically filtering the products in real-time according to rules defined by the travel product sponsor company. In one of the embodiments, ancillary products from an...