US Patent Issued to Maplebear on March 3 for "Automatically establishing sessions between users and shopping carts" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,047, issued on March 3, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automatically establishing sessions between users and shopping carts" was invented by Nathan Bauer (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated checkout system automatically establishes sessions between users and shopping carts by correlating action events with distances of the user's client device to the shopping cart. The automated checkout system determines the client device's distance from the shopping cart at timestamps when an action event occurs with respect to the shopping cart. If the distances and the action events are correlated, th...