ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,959, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HOUSEMANTA INC. (Seattle).

"Automated pre-approval generation based on real estate search" was invented by Kyle Bergquist (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating a mortgage pre-approval document includes rendering display results from searching a real estate database. The display results include one or more real estate listings overlayed on a map. A user input is received selecting a selected real estate listing from the one or more real estate listings in the display results. The selected real estate listing includes a listing price. A calculated monthly payment is calculated based ...