ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,715, issued on April 14, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Marketplace listing generation using message metadata" was invented by Lakshmanan Velusamy (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to receive a message from a user device. The message may include metadata that includes data related to one or more specifications of the user device. The method may also determine a sales price for the user device based on the one or more specifications of the user device and create a listing for the user device that includes at least the sales price and at least one of the one or more speci...