US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Dec. 2 for "Disabling functionality of an auto-checkout client application based on anomalous user behavior" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,091, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Disabling functionality of an auto-checkout client application based on anomalous user behavior" was invented by Dominic Cocchiarella (Berkeley, Calif.), Andrew Peters (Tiburon, Calif.), Brandon Leonardo (Redwood City, Calif.), Samuel Slezek (San Diego) and Spencer Schack (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated checkout system aims to detect and disable certain functionalities of an auto-checkout client application if a user exhibits anomalous behavior. The system collects user interaction data to describe the user's interactions with the client devic...