ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,986, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating information integrity instructions using a generative model" was invented by Anant Agarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sebastian Soto (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system stores data obtained from various users of the online system. For example, the online system maintains databases for various users, with a database including data received from the user. As users provide data to the online system for storage, the online system applies data integrity checks received from users that verifies received data satisfies one or more ...