ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,521, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Modified webpage code generation for customized homepages" was invented by Shahram Khadivi (Herzogenrath, Germany) and Christian Klaus Herold (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects relate to technologies for using a generative model to customize homepages. In accordance with some aspects, webpage code for a home page is accessed. Additionally, a prompt is received to modify the homepage to provide a customized homepage. A generative model is caused to generate modified webpage code using the prompt and the webpage code. The modified webpage c...