US Patent Issued to Maplebear on July 29 for "Machine learning model for determining a time interval to delay batching decision for an order received by an online concierge system to combine orders while minimizing probability of late fulfillment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,880, issued on July 29, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Machine learning model for determining a time interval to delay batching decision for an order received by an online concierge system to combine orders while minimizing probability of late fulfillment" was invented by Reza Faturechi (San Francisco), Site Wang (Fremont, Calif.) and Jagannath Putrevu (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge identifies orders to shoppers, allowing shoppers to select orders for fulfillment. The online concierge system may generate batches that include multiple orders, allowing a shopper to select a batch ...