US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Nov. 25 for "Detecting matching client devices based on location data" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,562, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Detecting matching client devices based on location data" was invented by Karen Kraemer Lowe (Los Altos, Calif.), Robert Border (Decatur, Ga.) and Lingling Zhang (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online security system identifies matching client devices by comparing location data points acquired during application workflow from different devices. The location data points comprise a location of the device and a timestamp. Identifiable pairs of data points are collated from different devices when they show a device present within a threshold distance or t...