Patent No. 7,739,248 Issued on June 15, Assigned to Honda Motor for HTS Classifications Auditing Method (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Matt Halterman of Corona, Calif., Mark Swirt of Sunland, Calif., Denise Thorn of Long Beach, Calif., Laurie Peach of Laguna Hills, Calif., Frederic Holmes of Manhattan Beach, Calif., Tom Potts of Laguna Niguel, Calif., and Anthony Uy of Torrance, Calif., have developed a method for auditing HTS classifications. The inventors were issued U.
S. Patent No. 7,739,248 on June 15.
The patent has been assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd., Tokyo.
According to the abstract released by the U.
S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for auditing HTS classifications generated from entry packets submitted electronically by U.
S. Customs Brokers. A software user interface enables a user to enter the submitted entry packet into a first repository in a centralized database. Executable layers of code links the database to the software user interface. A second repository contains information pertinent to HTS classifications. The user compares the entries in the second repository to the HTS classifications in the first repository. The user generates a report containing any discrepancies between the information contained in the entry packet to the internal classifications. The report can be used to identify errors in the importation process."
The original application was filed on March 1, 2004.