ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,136, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Home Depot Product Authority LLC (Atlanta).
"Price estimation system" was invented by Robert L. Miller (Atlanta), John S. Schulte (Atlanta) and Mika Illouz (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a price estimation system includes obtaining service requests from consumers, and obtaining bids from service professionals based on the service requests obtained from the consumers. The method additionally includes generating a training set based on the bids and the service requests, and generating a model for generating price estimates based on the training set. The method also ...