US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Aug. 12 for "Recommendations based on private data using a dynamically deployed pre-filter" (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,238, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Recommendations based on private data using a dynamically deployed pre-filter" was invented by Supriyo Chakraborty (White Plains, N.Y.), Keith Grueneberg (Stewart Manor, N.Y.), Bongjun Ko (Harrington, N.J.), Christian Makaya (Summit, N.J.), Jorge J. Ortiz (Rego Park, N.Y.), Swati Rallapalli (Ossining, N.Y.), Theodoros Salonidis (Wayne, Pa.), Rahul Urgaonkar (Rye, N.Y.), Dinesh Verma (New Castle, N.Y.) and Xiping Wang (Scarsdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for targeted advertisement includes transmitting a pre-filter to the user device, responsi...