US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Jan. 27 for "Identifying and modifying components of a physical document using machine-learning models" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,183, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Identifying and modifying components of a physical document using machine-learning models" was invented by Shaun Navin Maharaj (Vaughan, Canada), Bryan Pham (London, Canada), Prithvishankar Srinivasan (Seattle), Rakshit Shukla (Mississauga, Canada), James Matthews (San Francisco) and Brent Scheibelhut (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system customizes documents for a particular context, user, or set of users. The online system receives an image of a physical document and extracts components, such as text, titles, items and their metadata, from t...