US Patent Issued to CoStar Realty Information on May 5 for "Uniform resource identifier encoding" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,675, issued on May 5, was assigned to CoStar Realty Information Inc. (Washington).

"Uniform resource identifier encoding" was invented by Heidemarie W. Williams (Homer Glen, Ill.), Adam Fischer (Mokena, Ill.) and Tod Kuwahara (South Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a query including search parameters; selecting one or more of the search parameters; for each of the selected parameters: generating a natural language representation of the selected parameter, and determining a rank of the selected parameter among ...