ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,440, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for mitigating third party contingencies" was invented by Santo Francisco Brocato (Austin, Texas), Kellen Christopher Mollahan (Summit, N.J.), Adam Warmoth (Los Angeles) and Raphael Max Lurie (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for limiting facilitating a multi-modal transportation itinerary are provided. The system includes a service entity computing system and a vehicle provider computing system that collaborate to create and facilitate an end-to-end multi-modal transportation itinerary. This can include ...