ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,522, issued on June 30, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic generation of user interface elements" was invented by Huai-ter Chong (Saratoga, Calif.) and Yun Liu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various example embodiments, a system and method for dynamically generating user interface elements and associated values are presented. An item listing and profile data are accessed. A set of user interface elements are dynamically generated based on the item listing and the profile data, with each user interface element configured to perform an action on the item listing. A set of values are dynamically...