US Patent Issued to Maplebear on June 23 for "User interface enabling order fulfillment options based on predicted fulfillment times from a trained model" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,514, issued on June 23, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"User interface enabling order fulfillment options based on predicted fulfillment times from a trained model" was invented by Yueyi Sun (San Francisco), Zi Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Houtao Deng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aman Jain (Seattle) and Jian Wang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system receives an order from a user including items to obtain from a retailer for delivery to a location. A picker selects the order and obtains items from the retailer. The user selects a time interval during which items from the order are deliv...