US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Feb. 24 for "Augmenting an availability of an item at a warehouse determined from an availability model with information from shoppers fulfilling orders on item availability" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,648, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Augmenting an availability of an item at a warehouse determined from an availability model with information from shoppers fulfilling orders on item availability" was invented by Joey Loi (San Francisco), Viswa Mani Kiran Peddinti (San Francisco), Eugene Agronin (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and John Salaveria (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system displays an ordering interface to users that displays items offered by various warehouses. The online concierge system includes machine learning availability model that estimates an item's avail...