US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Oct. 20 for "Fine-tuning language models to associate scanned text labels and item names" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,101, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Fine-tuning language models to associate scanned text labels and item names" was invented by Bo Xu (San Francisco), Jian Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shengwen Fang (Vancouver, Canada), Chun-Che Wang (Seattle), Sumiran Pradhan (Bothell, Wash.) and Ying Li (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system trains a language model to generate an association between receipt labels and item names, enabling the online system to identify discrepancies between receipt labels and item names. The online system identifies training label-name pairs from a plurality...