Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
216 patents granted to the 3 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Maplebear Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
216
206 utility, 10 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
112
Against 46 in 2024 and 36 in 2023
Applications published
306
231 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
IT methods for management105
Computer technology85
Digital communication5
Control3
Measurement3
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
Maplebear Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
302 publishedMaplebear Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CA)
213 granted
0 publishedSbot Technologies, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
3 granted
4 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,511,677 | Automated policy function adjustment using reinforcement learning algorithm | Computer technology | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,511,663 | Incremental cost prediction for user treatment selection | IT methods for management | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,511,339 | Machine learning approach to provide adaptive search result page load size and layout | Computer technology | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 23, 2025 | 12,506,540 | Establishing a communication session using a handshake process with light signals | Digital communication | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 16, 2025 | D1,106,631 | Shopping cart | | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,499,480 | Enabling ordering through a client application through text messages when a client device lacks a data connection to a network | Digital communication | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,499,471 | Automatically generating a retailer-specific brand page based on a machine learning prediction of item availability | IT methods for management | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 9, 2025 | 12,493,893 | Relating environmental effects to user interactions using automated shopping carts | IT methods for management | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 9, 2025 | 12,493,655 | Clustering database items based on output of machine-learning model to link database items that represent the same core item but with a different stored size or form attribute | Computer technology | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 2, 2025 | 12,488,368 | Systems and methods for intelligent promotion design with promotion scoring | IT methods for management | Maplebear Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0391124 | DISPLAYING A RECIPE PREPARATION SUGGESTION IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY ELEMENT BASED ON A PREDICTED RECIPE BEING PREPARED | Computer technology | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0391073 | DISPLAYING AN AUGMENTED REALITY ELEMENT LISTING SUPPLEMENTAL ITEMS ASSOCIATED WITH A DETECTED ITEM | Computer technology | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0390935 | User Interface for Selecting Sources for an Online Concierge System with a Quick-Add Option for an Item-Source Pair | IT methods for management | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0390934 | PREDICTING INCREMENTAL LIFT ON ITEM CONVERSIONS CAUSED BY IN-STORE SAMPLE BOOTH USING A TRAINED MODEL | IT methods for management | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0390933 | PROVIDING INFORMATION FOR LOCATING AN ITEM WITHIN A WAREHOUSE FROM A SHOPPER TO OTHER SHOPPERS RETRIEVING THE ITEM FROM THE WAREHOUSE | IT methods for management | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0390929 | Personalized Recommendations Matching a List of Item Descriptors to Catalog Products from a Database | IT methods for management | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0390928 | RECOMMENDING CONTENT BASED ON A PREDICTED EXPLORATION SCORE FOR AN ONLINE SYSTEM USER | IT methods for management | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0390927 | Machine-Learning Prediction of Nutritional Preferences for a User of an Online System | IT methods for management | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0390903 | Using a Trained Model to Predict a User's Price Sensitivity Based on Data Acquired from In-Store Sensors | IT methods for management | Maplebear Inc. |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0390901 | LOCATION-BASED ASSIGNMENT OF SHOPPER-LOCATION PAIRS | IT methods for management | Maplebear Inc. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: IT methods for management 163 · Computer technology 118 · Medical technology 4 · Digital communication 3 · Measurement 2 · Control 2.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.