US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Feb. 10 for "Generating recommendations for pickers servicing orders placed with an online concierge system based on actual and forecasted orders" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,975, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating recommendations for pickers servicing orders placed with an online concierge system based on actual and forecasted orders" was invented by Youdan Xu (Burlingame, Calif.), Krishna Kumar Selvam (San Fransisco, Calif.), Michael Chen (San Francisco), Radhika Anand (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rebecca Riso (Croton-On-Hudson, N.Y.) and Ajay Pankaj Sampat (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system receives location information associated with pickers and actual orders associated with a geographical zone. A model trained to predict a lik...