US Patent Issued to Maplebear on July 29 for "Sharing and generating prepopulated carts by an online concierge system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,879, issued on July 29, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Sharing and generating prepopulated carts by an online concierge system" was invented by Shaun Navin Maharaj (Vaughan, Canada), Brent Scheibelhut (Toronto), Bradley Colthurst (Toronto) and Ryan McColeman (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system facilitates ordering, procurement, and delivery of items to a customer from physical retailers based on shared cart recommendations. Based on customer identifying information and other data sources, the online concierge system may recommend prepopulated shared carts that may be of interest to a c...