US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Feb. 18 for "Creation and arrangement of items in an online concierge system-specific portion of a warehouse for order fulfillment" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,720, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Creation and arrangement of items in an online concierge system-specific portion of a warehouse for order fulfillment" was invented by Joey Loi (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Viswa Mani Kiran Peddinti (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A warehouse from which shoppers fulfill orders for an online concierge system maintains an online concierge system-specific portion for which the online concierge system specifies placement of items in regions. To place items in the online concierge system-specific portion, the online concierge system accounts for co-occurrences ...