US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Aug. 25 for "Computer-based method and system for managing a food inventory of a flight" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,306, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Computer-based method and system for managing a food inventory of a flight" was invented by Viraj Chaudhary (Katy, Texas), Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Jennifer Kwok (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary method includes receiving, by a processor, flight information from a computer device associated with an airline identifying a flight and passengers on the flight that purchased flight tickets by utilizing payment cards associated with a card authorizing entity. Passenger food preferences for the flight passengers base...