ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,592, issued on March 17, was assigned to MFTB Holdco Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated tool for generating and providing housing-related information" was invented by Aveek Karmakar (Issaquah, Wash.), Giuliano Janson (Lynnwood, Wash.), Min Hung Shih (Redmond, Wash.), Tanner McGlenn Newton (Watsonville, Calif.), David Bell Waterson (San Francisco) and Anusha Satish Bagalkotkar (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for performing automated operations related to generating and providing housing-related information, such as to automatically respond to free-form natural language query requests for housing-relate...