ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,006, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Keller Williams Realty Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Property recommendation system, methods, and apparatus" was invented by Mark Nicholas Law (Leander, Texas), John Keller (Austin, Texas), Kaiser H.D. Kabir (Austin, Texas) and Timothy Howard Nats (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed that determine property recommendations for a user. The methods, apparatus, and systems may also predict when a user is likely to become a property buyer and/or seller to determine when certain property recommendations are to be made. The methods, apparatus, ...