ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,999, issued on May 27, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).
"Mapping recipe ingredients to products" was invented by William Silverthorne Faurot III (Seattle) and Tyler Russell Tate (Lexington, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system receives a recipe from a customer mobile device. The online system performs natural language processing on the recipe to determine parsed ingredients. For each of one or more of the determined parsed ingredients, the online system maps the parsed ingredient to a generic item. The online system queries a product database with the mapped generic item to obtain one or more products as...