US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Oct. 20 for "Machine learned model for selecting actions for fulfilling order with out-of-stock items" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,178, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Machine learned model for selecting actions for fulfilling order with out-of-stock items" was invented by Madeline Mesard (New York), Brent Scheibelhut (Toronto) and Shaun Navin Maharaj (Vaughan, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system for determining quality improvement actions responsive to an item being unavailable at source location after an order was placed. The system receives an indication from a picker client device that a requested item from an order to be fulfilled at a source location is unavailable at the source location. The system re...