US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Nov. 3 for "Classifying and organizing search results using a multiclass classification model" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,088, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Classifying and organizing search results using a multiclass classification model" was invented by Xuan Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Max Comer (San Francisco), Qi Zhong (Los Angeles), Ji Chao Zhang (Richmond Hill, Canada), Tejaswi Tenneti (San Carlos, Calif.) and Haixun Wang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Classifying results of a user's search query using a trained classification model. In response to the search query, an online system retrieves a set of candidate search results, each candidate search result associated with a respective item of a pl...