US Patent Issued to Maplebear on April 1 for "Providing and displaying search results in response to a query" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,006, issued on April 1, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Providing and displaying search results in response to a query" was invented by Taesik Na (Seattle), Vinesh Reddy Gudla (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Xiao Xiao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system displays search results in response to a query by receiving a query from a customer. An online system accesses a set of candidate items and computes a relevance score and personalization score for each item. The online system computes the relevance score based on query data and item data and may normalize the relevance score. The online system...