ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,735, issued on May 26, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).
"Serving a unified catalog to multiple client groups using catalog surfaces" was invented by Alex Charlton (San Francisco), Mohammad Wasiuddin Ahmed (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Dov Schnaider (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system maintains a catalog of items and allows client applications to access variations of items from the catalog. A particular variation of items of the catalog is referred to as a catalog surface. The online system determines a catalog surface corresponding to a request for items received from a client application. The syst...