US Patent Issued to Maplebear on May 5 for "Parallel processing candidate pairings of delivery agents with routes to fulfill delivery orders and asynchronous selecting optimal pairings from the candidates" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,946, issued on May 5, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Parallel processing candidate pairings of delivery agents with routes to fulfill delivery orders and asynchronous selecting optimal pairings from the candidates" was invented by Xianlei Qiu (San Carlos, Calif.), Site Wang (Fremont, Calif.) and Deepak Tirumalasetty (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system receives information describing orders from its customers and generates a route for each order based on this information. The routes are partitioned into multiple sets of routes and multiple candidate generation processes are ...