US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Feb. 10 for "Automatic quality assessment of an item during order fulfillment" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,649, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automatic quality assessment of an item during order fulfillment" was invented by Brent Scheibelhut (Toronto), Charles Wesley (San Diego), Siby Alappatt (Boston), Benjamin Chevoor (Toronto) and Viswa Mani Kiran Peddinti (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Use of a language model to automatically perform visual assessment of quality of an item being fulfilled by a picker. The online system receives an image of the item and identifies a set of potential problems associated with the item. The online system generates a plurality of prompts for input into t...