US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Sept. 15 for "Text-based representations of location data for large language model-based item identification" (California, Illinois, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,561, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Text-based representations of location data for large language model-based item identification" was invented by Benjamin Knight (Oakland, Calif.), Kenneth Jason Sanchez (Orange, Calif.), Matthew Negrin (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Licheng Yin (Burlingame, Calif.), Christopher Billman (Chicago) and Rebecca Riso (Croton-On-Hudson, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system generates text-based representations of various types of data for processing using a large language model. The online system extracts location data from a map of a source location and converts ...