ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,056, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).
"Method, computer-readable storage medium, and system for adaptively controlling search recall set sizes based on query entropy" was invented by Vinesh Reddy Gudia (South San Francisco, Calif.), Prakash Putta (Seattle), Tejaswi Tenneti (San Carlos, Calif.) and Prathyusha Bhaskar Karnam (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search module for an online concierge system executes searches in response to a search query with respect to item databases of retailers. The search module dynamically configures a recall set size that controls a number of search ...