Patents by Inventor Nathan Bauer

Nathan Bauer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • AUTOMATICALLY ESTABLISHING SESSIONS BETWEEN USERS AND SHOPPING CARTS
    Publication number: 20260065246
    Abstract: An automated checkout system automatically establishes sessions between users and shopping carts by correlating action events with distances of the user’s client device to the shopping cart. The automated checkout system determines the client device’s distance from the shopping cart at timestamps when an action event occurs with respect cart. If the distances and the action events are correlated, the system establishes a session between the user and the shopping cart. Additionally, the automated checkout system attributes target actions to recipe suggestions. The automated checkout system displays a recipe suggestion to a user on a display of a shopping cart, and identifies an item added to the shopping cart. If the added item matches an item in the set of recipes, the automated checkout system applies an attribution model that determines whether to attribute a target action that relates to the item with the recipe suggestion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2025
    Publication date: March 5, 2026
    Inventor: Nathan Bauer
  • Automatically establishing sessions between users and shopping carts
    Patent number: 12567047
    Abstract: An automated checkout system automatically establishes sessions between users and shopping carts by correlating action events with distances of the user's client device to the shopping cart. The automated checkout system determines the client device's distance from the shopping cart at timestamps when an action event occurs with respect to the shopping cart. If the distances and the action events are correlated, the system establishes a session between the user and the shopping cart. Additionally, the automated checkout system attributes target actions to recipe suggestions. The automated checkout system displays a recipe suggestion to a user on a display of a shopping cart, and identifies an item added to the shopping cart. If the added item matches an item in the set of recipes, the automated checkout system applies an attribution model that determines whether to attribute a target action that relates to the item with the recipe suggestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan Bauer
  • AUTOMATICALLY ESTABLISHING SESSIONS BETWEEN USERS AND SHOPPING CARTS
    Publication number: 20230376923
    Abstract: An automated checkout system automatically establishes sessions between users and shopping carts by correlating action events with distances of the user's client device to the shopping cart. The automated checkout system determines the client device's distance from the shopping cart at timestamps when an action event occurs with respect to the shopping cart. If the distances and the action events are correlated, the system establishes a session between the user and the shopping cart. Additionally, the automated checkout system attributes target actions to recipe suggestions. The automated checkout system displays a recipe suggestion to a user on a display of a shopping cart, and identifies an item added to the shopping cart. If the added item matches an item in the set of recipes, the automated checkout system applies an attribution model that determines whether to attribute a target action that relates to the item with the recipe suggestion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: Nathan Bauer
  • INFERRING ATTRIBUTION OF TARGET ACTIONS FOR RECIPE SUGGESTIONS
    Publication number: 20230377020
    Abstract: An automated checkout system automatically establishes sessions between users and shopping carts by correlating action events with distances of the user's client device to the shopping cart. The automated checkout system determines the client device's distance from the shopping cart at timestamps when an action event occurs with respect to the shopping cart. If the distances and the action events are correlated, the system establishes a session between the user and the shopping cart. Additionally, the automated checkout system attributes target actions to recipe suggestions. The automated checkout system displays a recipe suggestion to a user on a display of a shopping cart, and identifies an item added to the shopping cart. If the added item matches an item in the set of recipes, the automated checkout system applies an attribution model that determines whether to attribute a target action that relates to the item with the recipe suggestion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: Nathan Bauer