ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,722, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Inventory intelligence for parts using combination metadata identifier" was invented by Sarabdeep Singh Multani (San Jose, Calif.), Suhas Giridhar Danavandi (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Prathihasth Rekabu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects relate to technologies for employing metadata identifiers for part item listings on a listing platform to generate inventory intelligence. In accordance with some aspects, textual analysis of listing data for each of a plurality of part item listings on a listing platform is performed to assign a metadat...