US Patent Issued to Maplebear on June 16 for "Ranking search queries using contextual relevance and third-party factors" (New York, California, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,194, issued on June 16, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Ranking search queries using contextual relevance and third-party factors" was invented by Levi Boxell (Brownsburg, Ind.), Esther Vasiete Allas (New York), Tejaswi Tenneti (San Carlos, Calif.), Tilman Drerup (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yueyang Rao (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system allowing users to search for items of interest provides a search query interface. The system receives characters of a search query in the search interface as the user enters the characters and interactively calculates, ranks, and displays a set of possible se...