US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Nov. 3 for "Training a machine-learning model to predict location using wheel motion data" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,281, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Training a machine-learning model to predict location using wheel motion data" was invented by Lin Gao (Miami), Yilin Huang (Shanghai), Shiyuan Yang (Shanghai), Xiaofei Zhou (Shanghai), Kaiyang Chu (Shanghai) and Sikun Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shopping cart's tracking system receives wheel motion data from a plurality of wheel sensors coupled to a plurality of wheels of the shopping cart, wherein the wheel motion data describes rotation of the plurality of wheels and orientation of the plurality of wheels. The tracking system predicts an esti...