ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,098, issued on June 2, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Using a model to suggest changes to an order to use unspent credits before a machine-predicted expiration of same" was invented by Domenico Matteo (San Mateo, Calif.), Joseph Olivier (San Bruno, Calif.), Mathieu Hartvick (Ottawa), Lukasz Czekaj (North Las Vegas, Nev.), Alexander S. Piatski (New York), Yiheng Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Eric Cumalander (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A language model is utilized to generate a recommendation for a user of an online system to update a current order. The user is grouped into a cluster of users based on how lik...