ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,679, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"User interface for chat-guided searches" was invented by Katarina Batina (Seattle) and Kenneth Cohen (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, via a first user interface, a selection associated with an object; determining a first set of object attributes based on the selection; presenting, via a second user interface, a text prompt for a user to identify a subset of the first set of object attributes; receiving, via the second user interface, an indication of one or more preferred object attributes...