ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,935, issued on April 22, was assigned to Constellation Software Inc. (New York).

"Tool for generating and publishing vehicle offer" was invented by Diana S. Lee (New York), Matthew R. Woodruff (New York) and Mohammad Nauman Hafiz (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for generating and publishing vehicle offers by matching up manufacturer incentive data and vehicle data received from a third party data source with inventory data received from a dealership data source is disclosed. The disclosed tool allows a user to match incentive and vehicle data to specific vehicles currently in a dealership's inventory and to gener...