ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,650, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating an interface displaying items offered by a warehouse that accounts for predicted availabilities of items determined from a trained model" was invented by Chuanwei Ruan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Diego Goyret (Los Gatos, Calif.), Tilman Drerup (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Rob Donnelly (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system allows users to purchase items from warehouses and delivers the purchased items to the users. When displaying items offered by a warehouse, the online concierge system predicts an availability of the items at t...