ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,165, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Simulating adaptive experiments for feasibility analysis" was invented by Konrad Gustav Miziolek (San Francisco) and Jacob Jensen (Metuchen, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variation testing system environment for simulating adaptive experiments of objects is disclosed. An experiment system conducts one or more simulations of an adaptive experiment that includes a plurality of variants of an object. Simulation results based on the one or more simulations are generated that are indicative of at least an estimated amount of time to conduct a real-world adaptiv...