US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Dec. 16 for "Automatically generating a retailer-specific brand page based on a machine learning prediction of item availability" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,471, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automatically generating a retailer-specific brand page based on a machine learning prediction of item availability" was invented by Ming Li (Seattle), Natalie Binns (San Francisco), Dmytro Solomadin (Toronto) and Zhiyi Fan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system receives information identifying items associated with a brand, a hierarchical taxonomy of the items, and information identifying a retailer associated with the brand. The system applies a machine learning model to predict availabilities of the items at (a) retailer location(s) as...