US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Dec. 2 for "Ranking search results based on appeasement signals and query specificity" (Pennsylvania, California, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,009, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Ranking search results based on appeasement signals and query specificity" was invented by Levi Boxell (Brownsburg, Ind.), Vinesh Reddy Gudla (South San Francisco, Calif.), Michael Kurish (Perkasie, Pa.), Raochuan Fan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tilman Drerup (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Tejaswi Tenneti (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system displays items to a user in search results based on appeasement scores for the items, adjusted according to how specific the search query is. The online system receives a search query from a user of an online ...