ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,248, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"User interface for accessing multiple catalogs of items and indicating items added from catalogs" was invented by Christopher Hans Nietes Rudnick (Pacifica, Calif.), Imaan Munir (Los Angeles), Eduardo Martin Alarcon Villaran (Toronto), Miranda Bouck (Lincoln, Neb.) and Uladzimir Bahatyrevich (Fair Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scrollable listing of icons associated with catalogs is displayed, in which the scrollable listing of icons is overlaid onto a page and remains fixed when the page is scrolled, each icon is associated with a catalog, and ea...