ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,361, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MFTB Holdco Inc. (Seattle).

"Third party email parsing" was invented by Alexander L. Lange (Woodinville, Wash.) and Rebekah T. Boydston (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for third party email parsing comprises an input interface and a processor. The input interface is configured to receive an email. The processor is configured to: 1) determine whether the email is from a lead generating system; and 2) in the event that the email is from a lead generating system: a) extract real estate lead information from the email based at least in part on the lead generating system; b) de...