US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Dec. 16 for "Enabling ordering through a client application through text messages when a client device lacks a data connection to a network" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,480, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Enabling ordering through a client application through text messages when a client device lacks a data connection to a network" was invented by Muhammad Iftekher Chowdhury (Hamilton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system provides a client application executed on a client device for customers to generate orders for fulfillment by the online concierge system. If the client device is unable to establish a data connection to a network, the client application locally caches data on the client device for one or more retailers that includes i...