US Patent Issued to Maplebear on March 31 for "Automatically generating baskets of items to be recommended to users of an online system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,918, issued on March 31, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automatically generating baskets of items to be recommended to users of an online system" was invented by Shrikar Archak (Newark, Calif.) and Shishir Kumar Prasad (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to automatically generating a basket of items to be recommended to a user of an online system. The online system communicates a basket opportunity to a group of retailers, wherein the basket opportunity defines a plurality of item categories each associated with a respective item to be included in a basket. The online system receives,...