US Patent Issued to Maplebear on May 27 for "Distributed approximate nearest neighbor service architecture for retrieving items in an embedding space" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,286, issued on May 27, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Distributed approximate nearest neighbor service architecture for retrieving items in an embedding space" was invented by Guanghua Shu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Taesik Na (Issaquah, Wash.), Zhihong Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wideet Shende (San Francisco), Manmeet Singh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tejaswi Tenneti (Fremont, Calif.) and Reza Sadri (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system maintains item embeddings for items. As a number of items maintained by the online system increases, maintaining a single index of the item embeddings is increasingly diff...