ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,182, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Parsing text content to generate links to database of items using large language models" was invented by Riddhima Sejpal (Dublin, Calif.), Jatin Jain (Issaquah, Wash.) and Prithvishankar Srinivasan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Item linked recipe generation using machine learning is described. Raw data is received that describes a recipe that uses ingredients. Ingredient descriptors are extracted from the raw data for the ingredients. Parsed ingredient data is determined using the ingredient descriptors and a large language model, such that the parsed ...