US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Nov. 11 for "Suggesting an item for gifting to a user of an online concierge system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,066, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Suggesting an item for gifting to a user of an online concierge system" was invented by Girija Narlikar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Karuna Ahuja (San Francisco), Radhika Goel (San Francisco), Chakshu Ahuja (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaoming Zhang (Toronto) and Devlina Das (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system receives a request to purchase a gift for a user of the system and retrieves a profile associated with the user. Based on the profile and attributes of items included among inventories of one or more retailer locations, the system ...