US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Feb. 10 for "Dynamic augmented reality and gamification experience for in-store shopping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,070, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Dynamic augmented reality and gamification experience for in-store shopping" was invented by Andrew Peters (Tiburon, Calif.), Dominic Cocchiarella (Berkeley, Calif.), Brandon Leonardo (San Carlos, Calif.), David McIntosh (San Francisco) and Varouj Chitilian (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform may receive, from a user device, historical shopping information indicating previously purchased items and/or previous routes within shopping environments for a first user of the user device. The computing platform may input, into a sho...