US Patent Issued to Maplebear on July 8 for "Certified deliveries of high-value items" (New York, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,049, issued on July 8, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Certified deliveries of high-value items" was invented by Anastasija Kovalova (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Neera Chatterjee (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system receives, from a customer mobile application (CMA) an order including an item that requires verification of delivery. The online system transmits an indication that the order includes the item to a delivery mobile application (DMA). The DMA transmits a real-time location of a client device of a delivery agent to the online system. Responsive to determining that the delivery agent is at...