US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Feb. 3 for "Dynamic guardrail adjustments for a multi-armed bandit model" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,780, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Dynamic guardrail adjustments for a multi-armed bandit model" was invented by Xiao Gong (San Francisco) and Konrad Gustav Miziolek (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system adjusts a guardrail setting used by a user treatment engine based on conditions faced by the online system. The online system simulates the performance of the user treatment engine using different candidate guardrail settings and computes a score for each of the guardrail settings based on the performance of the user treatment engine using each of the guardrail settings. Th...