US Patent Issued to Maplebear on June 30 for "Real-time product selection guidance for conditional sales" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,508, issued on June 30, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Real-time product selection guidance for conditional sales" was invented by James E. Bostick (Cedar Park, Texas), John M. Ganci Jr. (Cary, N.C.), Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valid combination of products is constructed from a set of products identified by a retailing backend system. The valid combination satisfies a condition of an offer. A product in the combination of product is a physical product located in a physical store. A social sentiment towards the product in social media data of ...