US Patent Issued to Phia Holdings on March 11 for "System and method for recommending resale alternatives for retail items" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,974, issued on March 11, was assigned to Phia Holdings Inc. (New York).

"System and method for recommending resale alternatives for retail items" was invented by Phoebe Gates (New York), Sophia Kianni (New York) and Silas Alberti (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for an integrated subsystem that identifies resale consumer goods available for sale whereby picture or text descriptions of items of firsthand consumer goods may be used as an input or search query where a user may enter size, style, and color parameters for clothing and fashion items. The plug-in uses a web crawler to maintain a database...