ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,441, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for an e-commerce enabled digital whiteboard" was invented by Jeremy Leigh Cattone (Tigard, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for an e-commerce enabled digital whiteboard are described. The system receives first initialization information, over a network, from a mobile device that includes a description of a first vehicle and a description of a first repair for the first vehicle. The first initialization information is stored in a first context. The system further receives a first request to attach the first context to a...