US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Aug. 12 for "User interface for presenting ranked surge pricing opportunities for pickers in an online concierge system" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,153, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"User interface for presenting ranked surge pricing opportunities for pickers in an online concierge system" was invented by Youdan Xu (Burlingame, Calif.), Matthew Donghyun Kim (Seattle), Michael Chen (San Francisco), Marina Tanasyuk (San Francisco), Caleb Grisell (Los Angeles), Adrian Mclean (Petaluma, Calif.), Ajay Pankaj Sampat (San Francisco) and Yuan Gao (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system schedules pickers (shoppers) to fulfill orders from users. During periods of peak demand, the system increases compensation to sh...