US Patent Issued to Maplebear on July 15 for "Counterfactual evaluation of policies for categories of items using machine learning prediction of outcomes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,361, issued on July 15, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Counterfactual evaluation of policies for categories of items using machine learning prediction of outcomes" was invented by Cameron Nicholas Taylor (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Robert Fletcher (Los Angeles), Pedro Tanure Veloso (San Francisco), Tilman Drerup (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rob Donnelly (San Francisco), Ben Lowenstein (San Francisco) and Matthew Wean (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system fulfills orders for items offered by retailers and may increase the price of an item offered by a retailer in some instances. The online conc...