US Patent Issued to Maplebear on March 25 for "Optical scanning using receipt imagery for automated tax reconciliation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,438, issued on March 25, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Optical scanning using receipt imagery for automated tax reconciliation" was invented by Benjamin Knight (Oakland, Calif.), Benjamin Peyrot (San Francisco), Djordje Gluhovic (Oakland, Calif.), Rohit Turumella (San Jose, Calif.) and Alice Han (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system requests an image of a receipt of an order from a picker after the picker fulfills the order at a store. The online concierge system performs image processing on the image of the receipt and uses machine learning and optical character recognition ...