ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,993, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Using trained model to predict a supply state of an online system for managing order fulfillments" was invented by Rahul Makhijani (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are related to using a trained computer model to predict a supply state of an online system for state-aware management of order fulfillments. The online system measures first values of a metric for a set of sample orders. The online system accesses the computer model trained to predict a value of the metric for an order placed with the online system. The online system appl...