ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,996, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).
"Using different trained models to select suggested fulfillment sources for different slots of a user interface of an online system" was invented by Ying Li (San Francisco), Stephanie Ho (San Francisco), Rajeshkumar Swaminathan (San Francisco), Brian Dang (Seattle), Jonathan Gu (San Francisco), Elizabeth Reichert (Creve Coeur, Mo.), Shishir Kumar Prasad (Fremont, Calif.), Jiachuan He (San Francisco) and Matias Cersosimo (Stanford, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system displays an interface to users including slots in which sources from a list of so...