US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Sept. 15 for "Identifying items in images using embeddings generated from the images and ranking candidates using a language model" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,082, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Identifying items in images using embeddings generated from the images and ranking candidates using a language model" was invented by Prithvishankar Srinivasan (San Francisco), Shishir Kumar Prasad (Fremont, Calif.), Bryan Pham (London, Canada), Kristen Morgan (Toronto), Preeti Chadha (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Rakshit Shukla (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system applies a visual language model and an optical character recognition model to a received image to generate descriptive information about unknown items in the image. The on...