ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,633, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to EXPEDIA INC. (Seattle).
"Booking management system" was invented by Suguna Navin (Renton, Wash.), Wan-Shuan Cheng (Seattle), Abhishek Skariah (Seattle) and Andrew Lawrence Ebaugh (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Secure authentication and delayed transaction processing for booking management systems is provided. Third-party services partner with booking management systems to aggregate and list offerings of the third-party services in a digestible display on a one-stop platform. A booking management system can manage the authentication of payment card information on behalf of any number of...