US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Nov. 18 for "Using computer model to determine availability of service option for delivery of order placed with online system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,411, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Using computer model to determine availability of service option for delivery of order placed with online system" was invented by Zi Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Houtao Deng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiangyu Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Ganesh Krishnan (San Francisco) and Aman Jain (Barrie, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to determining an availability of a service option for delivery of an order placed with an online system. The online system receives an order placed with the online system. The online system accesses a computer model trained to...