ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,071, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Final Offer LLC (Hingham, Mass.).

"Sales mechanism and digital interface therefor" was invented by Peter Edward Clements (Claremont, Australia), Peter John Gibbons (Swanbourne, Australia), Bradley Robert Glover (Fremantle, Australia) and Duncan Royce Anderson (Daglish, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system 10 for conducting a sales mechanism over the internet in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. The system 10 comprises a sales platform 18 for vendors of items such as a real estate property, sales facilitators 16 to administer the sales mechanis...