US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Nov. 3 for "Supplementing a search query using a large language model" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,589, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Supplementing a search query using a large language model" was invented by Tejaswi Tenneti (San Carlos, Calif.), Shishir Kumar Prasad (Fremont, Calif.), Haixun Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Taesik Na (Issaquah, Wash.) and Shrikar Archak (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system retrieves engagement data associated with a base query made by a user for an item, the engagement data describing in part subsequent queries for other items following the base query in a single search session. The system generates a prompt that is provided to a machine learn...