ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,566, issued on March 17, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method, medium, and system for personalized recommendation of recipes including items offered by an online concierge system based on embeddings for a user and for stored recipes" was invented by Manmeet Singh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tyler Russell Tate (Lexington, Ky.), Tejaswi Tenneti (San Carlos, Calif.) and Sharath Rao Karikurve (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge shopping system identifies recipes to users to encourage them to include items from the recipes in orders. The online concierge system maintains user embeddings for ...