US Patent Issued to DOORDASH on Jan. 13 for "Software version control using forecasts as covariate for experiment variance reduction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,231, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DOORDASH INC. (San Francisco).

"Software version control using forecasts as covariate for experiment variance reduction" was invented by Qiyun Pan (Mountain View, Calif.), Ryan Scott Schork (San Francisco), Yixin Tang (Milbrae, Calif.), Caixia Huang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Swaroop Chitlur Haridas (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments can reduce variance in a target metric (e.g., experiment outcome). Embodiments can use historical pre-experiment outcomes to predict a metric (forecasts) that is expected for a future measurement time. The forecasts can then be u...