US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Feb. 10 for "Language model decoding for search query completion" (California, New York, Illinois, Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,648, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Language model decoding for search query completion" was invented by Jacob Jensen (Metuchen, N.J.), Fei Jia (Kirkland, Wash.), Esther Vasiete Allas (New York), Manmeet Singh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lee Cohn (Chicago) and Tejaswi Tenneti (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A language model is used to generate autosuggestions to complete or revise a user's partial search query. An initial partial query is applied to the language model to generate query candidates for completing the search query. The language model may generate the query candidates as...