ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,441, issued on July 28, was assigned to Desprez LLC (New London, N.H.).
"System for generating a request for pricing and a method for its use" was invented by James L. Jacobs (Amherst, N.H.), John E. Cronin (Bonita Springs, Fla.), Christopher M. Huffines (Williston, Vt.) and Steven M. Lynch (Hudson, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an exemplary embodiment, software made in accordance with the present invention displays a marketplace interface, which displays at least a portion of a CAD model and a set of marketplace tool selectors to a user such that the user can manipulate the tool selectors to interact with an electronic mark...