US Patent Issued to UBER TECHNOLOGIES on July 14 for "Out-of-stock prediction model and intervention method" (American, Chilean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,317, issued on July 14, was assigned to UBER TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Francisco).

"Out-of-stock prediction model and intervention method" was invented by Tejaswi Agarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Samuel Lite (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Rishi Sadhir (Oakland, Calif.) and Andres Felipe Cadiz Vidal (Santiago, Chile).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining out-of-stock predictions for merchant items and performing intervention actions based on the out-of-stock predictions using machine-learned models. The method includes obtaining feature data including at least (i) aggregations of historical found rate data, (ii) item level met...