ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,980, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to HOUSEMANTA INC. (Seattle).

"Automated loan-cost generation based on map-based real estate search by geographic area" was invented by Kyle Bergquist (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, at a computer system, provider profiles, wherein the provider profiles include at least a provider name, provider contact information, and a provider geographic region. The method may also include rendering, by the computing system, display results from searching a real estate database where the display results include one or more real estate listings overlayed on a map. A loan ...