US Patent Issued to Maplebear on May 19 for "Ranking search results based on user intent for recipe ingredients" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,504, issued on May 19, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Ranking search results based on user intent for recipe ingredients" was invented by Riddhima Sejpal (Dublin, Calif.), Prakash Putta (Seattle), Naval Shah (Toronto), Taesik Na (Issaquah, Wash.), Vinesh Reddy Gudla (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Hin-Seng Pang (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface of an online system is generated based on search for relevant items that match ingredients of a recipe. After receiving, from a device associated with a user of the online system, a query for an ingredient of a recipe, the online system i...