US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations, Airbus (China) Enterprise Management and Services on Oct. 20 for "Inventory management system for managing consumer products on a vehicle" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,098, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) and Airbus (China) Enterprise Management and Services Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Inventory management system for managing consumer products on a vehicle" was invented by Michael Bauer (Hamburg, Germany), Yiwen Mai (Beijing) and Ronald Pieter Sweers (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventory management system for managing consumer products on a vehicle, in particular an aircraft, includes a portable product-identification device configured to identify a consumer product presented to the product-identification device, wherein the product-iden...