US Patent Issued to Expedia on March 3 for "Travel content acquisition and validation system" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,808, issued on March 3, was assigned to Expedia Inc. (Seattle).

"Travel content acquisition and validation system" was invented by Mani Najmabadi (Seattle), Sarah Elizabeth Dean (Seattle), Patrick James Bradley (Kirkland, Canada), Niloofar Safi Samghabadi (Leander, Texas) and Samrat Halder (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present disclosure is a method for automatically acquiring and assessing travel data. The method includes acquiring travel data from a plurality of content sources using a plurality of AI agents, generating, using the AI agents, a plurality of output travel data items from the acq...