ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,481, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Kwivo LLC (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Pre-transit and post-transit facilitation of in-vehicle services" was invented by Alexandra Kathleen Heron (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Julio Toro Silva (Panama, Panama) and Manimeldura Janaka Mendis (Sar, Bahrain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach to facilitating provisioning of in-vehicle services is provided. Trip-identifying information may be obtained from a user-provided device. The trip-identifying information may identify a trip that is to occur on the vehicle. A list of in-vehicle services, which are available for the trip on the vehicle, may be determined bas...