US Patent Issued to Maplebear on March 17 for "Optimization of item availability prompts in the context of non-deterministic inventory data" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,512, issued on March 17, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Optimization of item availability prompts in the context of non-deterministic inventory data" was invented by Benjamin Knight (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives a request for a set of items at a warehouse from a user device, and determines a set of candidate items responsive to the request. The system applies a trained item availability model to each candidate item to determine a prediction of a likelihood that the candidate item is available for pickup at the warehouse. A subset of candidate items that have a prediction below a ...