ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,725, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Determining purchase suggestions for an online shopping concierge platform" was invented by Ryan McColeman (Toronto), Brent Scheibelhut (Toronto), Mark Oberemk (Toronto) and Shaun Navin Maharaj (Vaughan, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to determining purchase suggestions for an online shopping concierge platform. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure may receive, from a computing device associated with a customer of an online shopping concierge platform, data indicating one or more interactions ...