US Patent Issued to Maplebear on June 24 for "Contextual bandit model for query processing model selection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,915, issued on June 24, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Contextual bandit model for query processing model selection" was invented by Vinesh Reddy Gudla (South San Francisco, Calif.), David Vengerov (San Jose, Calif.) and Tejaswi Tenneti (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system uses a contextual bandit model for query processing. The system receives, from a client device, a user query for identifying one or more items by the system. The user query is described by one or more query features. The system obtains one or more contextual features describing a context of the user query. The system applies...