US Patent Issued to Maplebear on April 21 for "Machine learning model for predicting scheduled delivery for a self-picked order" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,674, issued on April 21, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Machine learning model for predicting scheduled delivery for a self-picked order" was invented by Mark Oberemk (Toronto), Akshay Bagai (Oakville, Canada), Brent Scheibelhut (Toronto), Madeline Mesard (New York), Hua Xiao (Toronto) and Naval Shah (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trained model is used to predict a scheduled delivery for a self-picked order. Responsive to receiving an indication from a device associated with a user of an online system that the device is either within a defined vicinity from a location of a retailer or physically present ...