US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Dec. 30 for "Incremental cost prediction for user treatment selection" (New York, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,663, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Incremental cost prediction for user treatment selection" was invented by Trace Levinson (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Nicholas Sturm (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system computes an incremental cost prediction for each of a set of user-treatment pairs to select a set of treatments to apply to users to satisfy a predicted interaction gap. The online system generates a set of candidate user-treatment pairs that each include user data for a user of the online system and treatment data for a treatment of a set of treatments. The online system computes an ...