ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,482, issued on March 18, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).
"Systems and methods for contract based offer generation" was invented by Jacob Solotaroff (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jamie Rapperport (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a contract-based offer generator is provided. A contract for a promotional offer on a product is received. Data is extracted from the contract. An offer band is accessed, and a plurality of test offers are selected from the offer bank by scoring each offer in the offer bank against the extracted data. The promotional offer and the selected plurality of test o...