US Patent Issued to Maplebear on July 8 for "Geofencing to reduce wait times for order pickups" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,059, issued on July 8, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Geofencing to reduce wait times for order pickups" was invented by Daniel Hsiao (San Francisco), Jason Scott (San Francisco), Michael Jablonski (San Francisco) and Nima Zahedi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives an order from one or more user client devices associated with an account of the system, and transmits a first notification to the one or more user client devices that an order is ready for pick up at a pickup location. The system receives location data from a particular user client device of the one or more user client devices. ...