US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Feb. 11 for "Methods and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for showing availability of orders for concierge shopping service" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,538, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Methods and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for showing availability of orders for concierge shopping service" was invented by Amy Luong (Toronto), Michael Righi (Cary, N.C.), Graham Adeson (San Francisco), Ross Stuart Williams (Mill Valley, Calif.), Aman Jain (Barrie, Canada), Radhika Anand (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ganesh Krishnan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For each retailer in the geographic region, an online system predicts a number of orders placed at the retailer and a capacity to fulfill orders during a forecast time perio...