US Patent Issued to Maplebear on March 25 for "Accounting for item attributes when selecting items satisfying a query based on item embeddings and an embedding for the query" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,894, issued on March 25, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Accounting for item attributes when selecting items satisfying a query based on item embeddings and an embedding for the query" was invented by Taesik Na (Issaquah, Wash.), Zhihong Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Guanghua Shu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tejaswi Tenneti (Fremont, Calif.) and Haixun Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system maintains various items and maintains values for different attributes of the items, as well as an item embedding for each item. When the online system receives a query for retrieving one or more items, the onli...