Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Maplebear Inc.

61 pending office actions • 19 art units • 50 examiners • 0 of 61 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 75 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

61
Total Pending OAs
32
Non-Final OAs
29
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 60 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

28
Overdue
1
Due this week
17
Due this month
8
Due in next 60 days
6
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 60 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (28)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (17)Due ≤ 60 days (8)Due later (6)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

21
Hard (34%)
35
Medium (57%)
2
Easy (3%)
3
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only21 (34%)
§103 only31 (51%)
§102 only4 (7%)
§112 only2 (3%)
No statute on record3 (5%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
7
Information Tech
11% of docket
2
Communications
3% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
52
Mechanical / Eng
85% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

610 h
Manual time on pending OAs
122 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
214 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WEINER, ARIELLE E 4 43.3% +53.0%
WAESCO, JOSEPH M 2 47.1% +42.3%
AIRAPETIAN, MILA 2 72.9% +14.7%
PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 2 42.7% +28.5%
MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 2 55.9% +15.0%
CRAWLEY, TALIA F 2 48.3% +25.8%
KANG, TIMOTHY J 2 46.1% +25.0%
KRINGEN, MICHELLE THERESE 2 55.7% +38.7%
MITROS, ANNA MAE 2 37.2% +49.5%
SHAH, VAISHALI 1 57.1% +56.8%

Hard Cases (21)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18464085 LEVERAGING INFORMATION ABOUT PRIOR ORDERS FROM VARIOUS USERS ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACCOUNT WHEN RECEIVING AN ORDER FROM A USER ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACCOUNT MITROS, ANNA MAE 85d overdue
18630672 AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF ITEMS PLACED IN A CART AND RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON SAME AIRAPETIAN, MILA 59d overdue
18678993 Computer Model for Determining Optimal Value for an Item Based on a Predicted Elasticity of Demand HEFLIN, BRIAN ADAMS 46d overdue
18614563 USING A TRAINED MODEL TO PREDICT AND PREVENT FAILED DELIVERIES CLARE, MARK C 37d overdue
18616620 Matching Images of Current Inventory with Machine Learning Predictions of User Preferences to Customize User Interface ASHRAF, WASEEM 30d overdue
18760578 MULTI-STEP LANGUAGE MODEL ENSEMBLE METHOD FOR ITEM ATTRIBUTE EXTRACTION GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA 26d overdue
18498445 USER INTERFACE WITH ADAPTIVE MAP INDICATING LOCATIONS BASED ON PREDICTED BATCH VOLUME KIM, PATRICK 16d overdue
18649676 ONLINE SHOPPING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A WAREHOUSE FOR INVENTORY BASED ON PREDICTED AVAILABILITY AND PREDICTED REPLACEMENT MACHINE LEARNING MODELS JARRETT, SCOTT L 5d overdue

Interview Candidates (21)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18464085 LEVERAGING INFORMATION ABOUT PRIOR ORDERS FROM VARIOUS USERS ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACCOUNT WHEN RECEIVING AN ORDER FROM A USER ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACCOUNT MITROS, ANNA MAE 85d overdue
18630672 AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF ITEMS PLACED IN A CART AND RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON SAME AIRAPETIAN, MILA 59d overdue
18490683 GENERATING A CONSTRAINED ORDER BASED ON A FREE-TEXT QUERY USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL KRINGEN, MICHELLE THERESE 45d overdue
18375109 Routing Based on Cross-Order Image Recognition CRAWLEY, TALIA F 44d overdue
18634766 MODEL TRAINED TO MAP TEXTUAL DATA FROM SCANNED RECEIPTS TO ITEMS FROM AN ORDER WEINER, ARIELLE E 29d overdue
18888607 CUSTOMIZED PAIRING RECOMMENDATIONS BY MACHINE-LEARNING LANGUAGE LEARNING MODELS AIRAPETIAN, MILA 24d overdue
18769202 Personalized Ranking of Search Query Results Using Engagement-Independent Machine Learning Model for Cold-Start Items PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 23d overdue
18626801 USER INTERFACE FOR DISPLAYING MODEL-BASED PREDICTION OF ORDER FEATURES CRAWLEY, TALIA F 16d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3689 15
3688 12
3627 6
3628 6
3624 3
3625 3
2156 2
2159 2
3621 2
2166 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19219883 Dynamic Selection of Machine-Learning Large Language Models Based on Queries SHAH, VAISHALI 2156 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending May 27, 2025
19208438 CONTEXTUAL BANDIT MODEL FOR QUERY PROCESSING MODEL SELECTION HARPER, ELIYAH STONE 2166 §102 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 14, 2025
19207030 DISTRIBUTED APPROXIMATE NEAREST NEIGHBOR SERVICE ARCHITECTURE FOR RETRIEVING ITEMS IN AN EMBEDDING SPACE MINCEY, JERMAINE A 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending May 13, 2025
19193828 Dynamically Generating Descriptions Using a Multi-Modal Large-Language Model MIAN, MUHAMMAD U 2163 §101 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2025
19078265 ACCOUNTING FOR ITEM ATTRIBUTES WHEN SELECTING ITEMS SATISFYING A QUERY BASED ON ITEM EMBEDDINGS AND AN EMBEDDING FOR THE QUERY WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL 2165 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2025
19067743 ATTRIBUTE EXTRACTION AND ERROR DETECTION USING MULTI-MODAL DATA SOURCES AND MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS HARMON, COURTNEY N 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Feb 28, 2025
19000108 PROMPT ADAPTATION FOR MACHINE-LEARNING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMS) WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN 2156 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Dec 23, 2024
19000089 PICKING SEQUENCE OPTIMIZATION WITHIN A WAREHOUSE FOR AN ITEM LIST JEANTY, ROMAIN 3624 §102 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Dec 23, 2024
18990154 GENERATING PERSONALIZED CONTENT CAROUSELS AND ITEMS USING MACHINE-LEARNING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND EMBEDDINGS ANSARI, AZAM A 3621 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2024
18967681 TRAINING A MODEL TO PREDICT LIKELIHOODS OF USERS PERFORMING AN ACTION AFTER BEING PRESENTED WITH A CONTENT ITEM WAESCO, JOSEPH M 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Dec 04, 2024
18906012 Self-Checkout Anti-Theft Vehicle Systems And Methods MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 03, 2024
18898272 SELECTING A LOCATION FOR ORDER FULFILLMENT BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING MODEL PREDICTION OF INCOMPLETE FULFILLMENT OF THE ORDER FOR DIFFERENT LOCATIONS LEVINE, ADAM L 3689 §101 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2024
18888607 CUSTOMIZED PAIRING RECOMMENDATIONS BY MACHINE-LEARNING LANGUAGE LEARNING MODELS AIRAPETIAN, MILA 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Sep 18, 2024
18785665 GENERATING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)-BASED IMAGES USING LARGE LANGUAGE MACHINE-LEARNED MODELS STATZ, BENJAMIN TOM 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jul 26, 2024
18772774 USER EMBEDDING GENERATION USING LLM-GENERATED CONTENT EMBEDDINGS SULLIVAN, THOMAS J 3689 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jul 15, 2024
18771748 MEAL PLANNING USER INTERFACE WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 12, 2024
18769970 TRANSFORMING ONLINE CONVERSATIONS IN A MESSAGING INTERFACE USING LARGE LANGUAGE MACHINE-LEARNED MODELS HE, JIALONG 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jul 11, 2024
18769202 Personalized Ranking of Search Query Results Using Engagement-Independent Machine Learning Model for Cold-Start Items PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2024
18760578 MULTI-STEP LANGUAGE MODEL ENSEMBLE METHOD FOR ITEM ATTRIBUTE EXTRACTION GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA 3688 §101 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2024
18753903 USING DIFFERENT TRAINED MODELS TO SELECT SUGGESTED FULFILLMENT SOURCES FOR DIFFERENT SLOTS OF A USER INTERFACE OF AN ONLINE SYSTEM ADE, OGER GARCIA 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jun 25, 2024
18678484 MACHINE LEARNED MODEL FOR ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS FOLLOWING FAILED ATTEMPTS MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending May 30, 2024
18678993 Computer Model for Determining Optimal Value for an Item Based on a Predicted Elasticity of Demand HEFLIN, BRIAN ADAMS 3628 §101 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending May 30, 2024
18677770 PREDICTING USER LOCATION DURING AN ATTENDED DELIVERY USING A MACHINE LEARNED MODEL WALSH, EMMETT K 3628 §101 Final Rejection 29d Pending May 29, 2024
18676345 Machine Learning Prediction of User Type for Generating Personalized User Interface for an Online System SMITH, LINDSEY B 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending May 28, 2024
18661317 STREAMLINED IMAGE TO MESSAGE AND ACTION REPLACEMENT WORKFLOW WITH MULTI-MODALITY MACHINE-LEARNED LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL LEE, JENNIFER V 3688 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending May 10, 2024
18657781 SELECTING AN ITEM FOR INCLUSION IN AN ORDER FROM A USER OF AN ONLINE CONCIERGE SYSTEM FROM A GENERIC ITEM DESCRIPTION RECEIVED FROM THE USER PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 Other Final Rejection 39d Pending May 08, 2024
18651533 FINE-TUNING LANGUAGE MODELS TO ASSOCIATE SCANNED TEXT LABELS AND ITEM NAMES RACIC, MILENA 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2024
18649676 ONLINE SHOPPING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A WAREHOUSE FOR INVENTORY BASED ON PREDICTED AVAILABILITY AND PREDICTED REPLACEMENT MACHINE LEARNING MODELS JARRETT, SCOTT L 3625 §101 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2024
18634757 MACHINE LEARNED MODEL FOR DETERMINING SEGMENTING OPTIONS TO FULFILL BULK ORDERS WEINER, ARIELLE E 3689 §101 Final Rejection 28d Pending Apr 12, 2024
18634754 AGENTIC SYSTEM USING GENERATIVE MODELS TO CREATE ORDERS FOR AN ONLINE CONCIERGE SYSTEM BASED ON USER QUERIES GARG, YOGESH C 3688 §101 Final Rejection 55d Pending Apr 12, 2024
18634766 MODEL TRAINED TO MAP TEXTUAL DATA FROM SCANNED RECEIPTS TO ITEMS FROM AN ORDER WEINER, ARIELLE E 3689 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2024
18630672 AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF ITEMS PLACED IN A CART AND RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON SAME AIRAPETIAN, MILA 3688 §101 Final Rejection 59d overdue Pending Apr 09, 2024
18629548 USING A LANGUAGE MODEL FOR SUGGESTING RECIPES BASED ON USER PREFERENCES AND DATA QUERIED FROM A CATALOG DATABASE DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN 3689 §103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Apr 08, 2024
18626801 USER INTERFACE FOR DISPLAYING MODEL-BASED PREDICTION OF ORDER FEATURES CRAWLEY, TALIA F 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2024
18616620 Matching Images of Current Inventory with Machine Learning Predictions of User Preferences to Customize User Interface ASHRAF, WASEEM 3621 §101 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Mar 26, 2024
18614563 USING A TRAINED MODEL TO PREDICT AND PREVENT FAILED DELIVERIES CLARE, MARK C 3628 §101 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2024
18587655 GENERATING QUERIES FOR USERS OF AN ONLINE SYSTEM USING LARGE LANGUAGE MACHINE-LEARNED MODELS AND PRESENTING THE QUERIES ON A USER INTERFACE KANG, TIMOTHY J 3689 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Feb 26, 2024
18443853 USE OF MACHINE-LEARNED PRESENT AND FUTURE MODELS FOR DELIVERY PREDICTIONS AND DELIVERY BATCHING GOODMAN, MATTHEW PARKER 3628 §102 Final Rejection 70d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18443103 MACHINE LEARNING-ENABLED INPUTS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF SUPPLY-DEMAND IN A MANAGED MARKETPLACE SYSTEM BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 3624 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2024
18442878 Predictive Model for Key Item Classification and Fulfillment ALLEN, WILLIAM J 3619 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2024
18441843 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR PREDICTING TRAVEL FOR RECOMMENDING CONTENT TO A USER OF AN ONLINE SYSTEM KRINGEN, MICHELLE THERESE 3689 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Feb 14, 2024
18427725 User Interface for Implementing Modifications to a Content Campaign Suggested by a Large Language Model DURAN, ARTHUR D 3622 §103 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2024
18421888 SIMULATING A/B TESTING THROUGH LARGE LANGUAGE MACHINE-LEARNED MODELS WAESCO, JOSEPH M 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 24, 2024
18421890 SEARCH RESULTS OPTIMIZATION BY ADJUSTING A MULTI OBJECTIVE RANKING COMPUTER MODEL BASED ON SESSION INFORMATION MITROS, ANNA MAE 3689 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Jan 24, 2024
18421803 PERSONALIZING RECIPES USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL THEIN, MARIA TERESA T 3689 §101 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jan 24, 2024
18393380 TRAINING DATA GENERATION BY BUCKETING USERS BASED ON OUTPUT OF A CONTEXTUAL BANDIT MODEL LOHARIKAR, ANAND R 3689 §101 Final Rejection 20d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18542239 SUGGESTING REPLACEMENT ITEMS BY INFERRING INTENT OF A USER OF AN ONLINE SYSTEM USING A TRAINED MODEL WEINER, ARIELLE E 3689 §101 Final Rejection Pending Dec 15, 2023
18532978 PREDICTING AVAILABILITIES OF ITEMS AT LOCATIONS BASED ON AVAILABILITY FLUCTUATIONS AT DIFFERENT TIMES OF DAY WEINER, ARIELLE E 3689 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Dec 07, 2023
18532541 Selecting Item Images for an Online Shopping Concierge Platform MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2023
18500930 TRAINED COMPUTER MODEL FOR IDENTIFICATION OF WRONG DELIVERY LOCATION FOR AN ORDER PLACED AT AN ONLINE SYSTEM KIRK, BRYAN J 3628 §112 Final Rejection 33d Pending Nov 02, 2023
18498445 USER INTERFACE WITH ADAPTIVE MAP INDICATING LOCATIONS BASED ON PREDICTED BATCH VOLUME KIM, PATRICK 3628 §101 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2023
18490683 GENERATING A CONSTRAINED ORDER BASED ON A FREE-TEXT QUERY USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL KRINGEN, MICHELLE THERESE 3689 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2023
18488811 TRAINED COMPUTER MODELS FOR AUTOMATIC SUGGESTION OF ALTERNATIVE ITEMS IN AN ORDER KANG, TIMOTHY J 3689 §101 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18485809 Context-Based Generation of Summarized Reviews Using a Large Language Model SHEIKH, ASFAND M 3626 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Oct 12, 2023
18375109 Routing Based on Cross-Order Image Recognition CRAWLEY, TALIA F 3627 §102 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18374457 MACHINE LEARNING PREDICTION OF WORKING HOURS FOR PICKERS OF A FULFILLMENT SERVICE BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18464085 LEVERAGING INFORMATION ABOUT PRIOR ORDERS FROM VARIOUS USERS ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACCOUNT WHEN RECEIVING AN ORDER FROM A USER ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACCOUNT MITROS, ANNA MAE 3689 §101 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2023
18457298 GENERATING REPLACEMENTS FOR A MEAL PLAN USING A MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL HOLCOMB, MARK 3685 Other Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2023
18455498 GENERATING TRAINING DATA FOR A NUTRITIONAL REPLACEMENT MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL NAJARIAN, LENA 3687 §112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Aug 24, 2023
18236371 DETERMINING GENERIC ITEMS FOR ORDERS ON AN ONLINE CONCIERGE SYSTEM WILDER, ANDREW H 3627 §101 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2023
18236342 RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM USING A RECIPE DATABASE AND CO-OCCURRENCES OF HISTORICAL ITEM SELECTIONS BARGEON, BRITTANY E 3688 §101 Final Rejection 13d Pending Aug 21, 2023

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