US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Sept. 9 for "Assigning control and variants to dynamically defined time periods in application state experiments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,700, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Assigning control and variants to dynamically defined time periods in application state experiments" was invented by Yixiang Zeng (Fremont, Calif.), Aneesh Mannava (San Francisco), Bing Hong Leonard How (South San Francisco, Calif.), Zhongqiang Liang (Fremont, Calif.), Wenhui Zhang (Redwood City, Calif.) and Lan Yu (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system dynamically determines time periods during which interaction data points are collected for application states being tested as part of an application state experiment. The online system c...