ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,533, issued on March 17, was assigned to Panasonic Avionics Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Dynamic transaction allocation system for in-flight connectivity" was invented by John Wade (Barrington Hills, Ill.), Kevin Rogers (London), Marshal Perlman (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Andrej Roncevic (Irvine, Calif.) and Andrew Thompson (Rancho Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing data connectivity for a passenger in a commercial passenger vehicle is provided. The method comprises: receiving, by a server onboard a commercial passenger vehicle, one or more data connectivity requests from one or more passenger electr...