US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Jan. 20 for "Generative model for item image selection" (California, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,819, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generative model for item image selection" was invented by Levi Boxell (Brownsburg, Ind.) and Tilman Drerup (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system generates item images using an item image generation model. The system receives a prompt for the model. The prompt is configured to request the model generate item images for an item. The system executes the model using the prompt to generate a set of item images. The system evaluates each of the set of item images to determine performance data of each of the set of item images. The system iterativ...