ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,514, issued on March 17, was assigned to The RealReal Inc. (San Francisco).

"Digital closet system with trade-in functionality" was invented by Nicole Eugenie Oncina Bernstein (San Francisco), Pratik Mohan Ramdasi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Eileen Guan (San Francisco), Molly Elizabeth Mann (Bellevue, Wash.), Tomas Alori Sorhuet (Montevideo, Uruguay), Federico Zaiter Trinidad (Montevideo, Uruguay), Agostina Juliana Larrazabal (Parana, Argentina), Lara Yan (Alameda, Calif.), Beatrice Lynes (San Francisco), Soledad Rivas (Montevideo, Uruguay), Gaston Rodriguez (Montevideo, Uruguay) and Juan Pablo Gonzalez Rivero (Ciudad de la Costa, Uruguay).

According to the abstract* released by the U....