US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Oct. 20 for "Method, computer program product, and system for selecting an item for inclusion in an order from a user of an online concierge" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,179, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method, computer program product, and system for selecting an item for inclusion in an order from a user of an online concierge" was invented by Weian Sheng (Foster City, Calif.), Peng Qi (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Changyao Chen (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system maintains a taxonomy associating one or more specific items offered by a warehouse with a generic item description. When the online concierge system receives a generic item description from a user for inclusion in an order, the online concierge system uses the taxonomy to ...