ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,609, issued on Oct. 14.

"Systems and methods for mapping real estate to real estate seeker preferences" was invented by Kathleen Warnaar (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described that provide for determining a relative non-monetary value of real estate properties and translating seeking users' real estate needs into user-specific criteria that can be incorporated in searches and optimize real estate search results based on the seeking users' needs for both real estate seeking users and real estate offering users. Seeking users may be evaluated for user-specific needs and receiver recommendations ...