ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,774, issued on May 26, was assigned to MFTB Holdco Ltd. (Seattle).

"Automatic updating of real estate database" was invented by Shourabh Rawat (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeff McConathy (San Francisco), Josh Holloway (San Francisco), Sriram Gopalakrishnan (Berkeley, Calif.) and Abhinav Kulkarni (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for updating a database comprises an input interface and a processor. The input interface is configured to receive image data. The processor is configured to determine from the image data one or more attributes of a database entry for real estate property and update the database entry for the ...