Abstract
According to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx journalists, a patent by the inventors Faturechi, Reza (San Francisco, CA, US), Putrevu, Jagannath (Daly City, CA, US), Wang, Site (Fremont, CA, US), filed on February 2, 2022, was published online on January 16, 2024. The assignee for this patent, patent number 11875394, is Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco, California, United States). Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “This disclosure relates generally to fulfilling orders for items through an online concierge system, and more specifically to machine learning models for determining a time interval for delaying identification of a received order to one or more shoppers for selection to increase batching of orders while avoiding late fulfillment.