US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Aug. 25 for "Generating bundles of items by using a generative model" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,280, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating bundles of items by using a generative model" was invented by Shih-Ting Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Saurav Manchanda (Seattle), Prithvishankar Srinivasan (Seattle), Shishir Kumar Prasad (Fremont, Calif.), Brian Lin (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.) and Michael Parrott (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system generates a plurality of bundles based in part on a seed list of contexts by generating one or more prompts that are provided to a machine learned model, where for a first context of the seed list of contexts, a prompt instru...