ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,318, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to JONES LANG LASALLE IP INC. (Chicago).

"Methods for managing a digital ecosystem for real estate property data and devices thereof" was invented by Douglas Maschoff (Dallas), Tyler Conrad Hinkelman (Dallas), Ahmed Shahid (Prosper, Texas) and Christopher Huff (Bonall, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This technology relates to intelligently generate a search query to access data. A method, computing device, and non-transitory computer readable medium include receiving a search request comprising natural language text. Next a prompt from the natural language text is extracted. A search genera...