US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Sept. 23 for "Location-based assignment of shopper-location pairs" (California, Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,724, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Location-based assignment of shopper-location pairs" was invented by Rockson Chang (Somerville, Mass.), Licheng Yin (Burlingame, Calif.), Chen Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Chen (San Francisco), Aaron Dou (Santa Clara, Calif.), Radhika Anand (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nicholas Sturm (Denver) and Ajay Pankaj Sampat (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to determining shopper-location pairs. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure may identify a set of available shoppers associated with an online ...