US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Sept. 30 for "Generating suggested instructions through natural language processing of instruction examples" (California, Texas, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,511, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating suggested instructions through natural language processing of instruction examples" was invented by Shishir Kumar Prasad (Fremont, Calif.), Cameron Nicholas Taylor (Walnut Creek, Calif.), John Salaveria (San Francisco), Joey Loi (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Kevin McCullough (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system generates suggested instructions for presentation to a user. The online concierge system access instruction examples corresponding to a target item category and generates candidate instruction representations based on...