ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,672, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).
"Smart expiration determination of grocery items" was invented by Brent Scheibelhut (Toronto) and Shaun Maharaj (Vaughn, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system may receive multi-angle images of a plurality of instances of a grocery item carried at a physical store. Each instance of the grocery item is associated with one or more multi-angle images that are captured through a checkout process of the instance of the grocery item. The online concierge system may apply a machine learning model to the multi-angle images to identify expirati...