US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Dec. 2 for "AI agent-driven interaction model for applications" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,857, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"AI agent-driven interaction model for applications" was invented by Tilman Drerup (Berkeley, Calif.), Haixun Wang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Sharath Rao Karikurve (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system configures one or more system AI agent instances that interact with user AI agents and performs one or more tasks on behalf of the online system. Thus, responsive to detecting the presence of a user AI agent representing a particular user, the online system directs the session for the user to communicate and interact with a system AI agent."

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