US Patent Issued to MFTB HOLDCO on Sept. 9 for "Guided real estate search using contextual refinement" (Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,187, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MFTB HOLDCO INC. (Seattle).

"Guided real estate search using contextual refinement" was invented by Farah Abdallah (Seattle), Andrei Lopatenko (Seattle), Tarun Agarwal (Redmond, Wash.), Arun Balagopalan (Astoria, N.Y.) and Jackson R. Gibbons (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guided search system for suggesting and arranging filter criteria within a user interface for presentation to a user to help guide the user's search for listings is disclosed. The system builds one or more filter criteria frequency data structures indicative of the number of times each filter criterion has been use...