ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,167, issued on June 23, was assigned to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (McClean, Va.).

"Distributed search and retrieval using uniform identifiers of loan pools and rule-based tools for restructuring of the loan pools" was invented by Bruce Bracco (Chantilly, Va.), Matthew J Seu (Ashburn, Va.) and Robert A Cimperman (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for distributed search and retrieval of loan pools and rule-based reorganization thereof may include a processor configured for receiving a first unique identifier and ownership indicator of a first loan pool and a second unique identifier and own...