ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,509, issued on March 18, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Virtual facility platform" was invented by David Beach (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and John Tapley (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various example embodiments, a system and method for dynamically generating virtual marketplace platforms are presented. The system receives a set of facility data, a set of selections for a set of user interaction objects, and a set of object placement selections. The set of user interaction objects includes a first subset and a second subset. The system generates a virtual facility comprising the facility data and the ...