US Patent Issued to Maplebear on June 30 for "Machine learning model for predicting future availability of items to evaluate potential replacement items during order fulfillment" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,471, issued on June 30, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Machine learning model for predicting future availability of items to evaluate potential replacement items during order fulfillment" was invented by Charles Wesley (San Diego) and Brent Scheibelhut (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system receives orders and allocates orders to pickers who obtain items in an order from a retailer and deliver the items to a customer from whom the order was received. When an item included in an order is unavailable, the online concierge system suggests one or more replacement items for the item. To select...