US Patent Issued to Maplebear on June 30 for "User interface arranging groups of items by similarity for user selection" (California, New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,518, issued on June 30, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"User interface arranging groups of items by similarity for user selection" was invented by Luis Manrique (New York), Sanchit Gupta (Seattle), Aref Kashani Nejad (Redmond, Wash.), Diego Goyret (Los Gatos, Calif.), Kurtis Mirick (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Joshua Roberts (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system receives a request from a user to access an ordering interface for a retailer and identifies a retailer location based on the user's location. The system uses a machine learning model to predict availabilities of items at the retaile...