US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Aug. 25 for "Detecting interruption events within an application workflow" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,610, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Detecting interruption events within an application workflow" was invented by Siddarth Kalra (Toronto), Gareth Pennington (Aurora, Canada), Sumiran Pradhan (Bothell, Wash.), Levon Dolbakian (Berkeley, Calif.) and Eric Guffey (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system predicts a number of interruption events within a time period and identifies anomalous numbers of interruption events using an interruption prediction model. The online concierge system maintains application state data that describes a state of an application workflow for...