US Patent Issued to Maplebear on July 22 for "Clustering data describing interactions performed after receipt of a query based on similarity between embeddings for different queries" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,220, issued on July 22, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Clustering data describing interactions performed after receipt of a query based on similarity between embeddings for different queries" was invented by Taesik Na (Issaquah, Wash.), Tejaswi Tenneti (San Carlos, Calif.), Haixun Wang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Xiao Xiao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system leverages stored interactions with items made by users after the online system received queries to determine display of items satisfying the query. For example, the online system trains a model to predict a likelihood of a user performing an int...