US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Sept. 15 for "Providing search suggestions based on previous searches and conversions" (California, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,780, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Providing search suggestions based on previous searches and conversions" was invented by Tejaswi Tenneti (San Carlos, Calif.), Tyler Russell Tate (Lexington, Ky.), Jonathan Lennart Bender (San Francisco), Shishir Kumar Prasad (Fremont, Calif.) and Qingyuan Chen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system suggests subsequent search queries based on previous search queries and whether the previous search queries resulted in conversions. The online concierge system trains a machine learning model using previous delivery orders and whe...