ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,592, issued on June 17, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method, computer program product, and system for displaying augmented reality elements for navigating to a location of an item within a warehouse" was invented by Spencer Schack (Seattle), Andrew Peters (Tiburon, Calif.), Aditya Godbole (San Francisco), Dominic Cocchiarella (Berkeley, Calif.) and Brandon Leonardo (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wayfinding application executing on a client device receives a current location of the device within a warehouse and accesses a layout of the warehouse describing locations of items included among an ...