US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Oct. 14 for "Displaying an interactive geographical map of sources" (California, Tennessee, Washington, Illinois, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,630, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Displaying an interactive geographical map of sources" was invented by Benjamin Knight (Oakland, Calif.), Samuel K. Sherman (Seattle), Daniely Zoller Cruz (Mt. Juliet, Tenn.), Kenneth Jason Sanchez (Orange, Calif.), Christopher Billman (Chicago) and Rebecca Younis (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system receives a request to access an interactive geographical map of sources from a client device associated with a user. The system retrieves data describing a geographical location associated with the user. The system identifies one or more ...