US Patent Issued to eBay on July 29 for "Method, medium, and system for interface extension operations and interfaces in an item listing system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,871, issued on July 29, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method, medium, and system for interface extension operations and interfaces in an item listing system" was invented by Ethan Benjamin Rubinson (San Jose, Calif.), Mark Jeffrey Weinberg (Los Gatos, Calif.), Senthil Kumar Padmanabhan (San Jose, Calif.) and Parin Pankaj Jogani (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems for providing customized-item-specific interfaces of items on extended interface devices in a search system. A plurality of items-each having an extended interface configuration that indicates customized-item-specific in...