US Patent Issued to Maplebear on June 23 for "Smart cart issue prediction with remedial workflow" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,524, issued on June 23, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Smart cart issue prediction with remedial workflow" was invented by Brent Scheibelhut (Toronto), Naval Shah (Toronto), Mark Oberemk (Toronto), Charles Wesley (San Diego), Michael John Remmer Ryzewic (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Hua Xiao (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system leverages a cart issue prediction model trained as a machine-learning model to identify predicted issues with the operation of a smart cart based on sensor data captured by sensors on the smart cart and/or feedback from a user of the smart cart. The machine-learning model is trained ...