ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,570, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated item listing generation system" was invented by Karim Bouyarmane (Seattle), Amirhossein Tavanaei (Newcastle, Wash.), Kee Kiat Koo (Shoreline, Wash.), Hayreddin Ceker (Fall City, Wash.), Yingjie Li (Bellevue, Wash.), Nicholas Hespe (New York) and Shaobai Jiang (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may receive a request to generate an item listing for an item. The system may retrieve a content seed comprising item information associated with the item, and generate the item listing based in part on providing the content seed as...