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Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)

296 applicationsfiled 2010 to 2025

Allowance rate
83%
+8 pts vs the USPTO range 78% to 87%
Rejections before allowance
1.8
+0.3 vs the USPTO
Months to first action
21.3 mo
+2.7 vs the USPTO
Needed an RCE
56%
+29 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes221 apps
G06F Electric digital data processing26 apps
G06N Computing arrangements based on specific computational models19 apps
G06K Recognition and presentation of data7 apps
G06V Image or video recognition5 apps
B62B 3 apps

Art units

362741 apps
368836 apps
368931 apps
362523 apps
362420 apps
362115 apps

Rejection fingerprint

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Applications

Every application in the record

ApplicationTitleFiledStatusRejectionsRCEsTo 1st action
19423020AUTOMATED POLICY FUNCTION ADJUSTMENT USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING ALGORITHM2025-12-17Pending00n/a
19369041GENERATING A SUGGESTED SHOPPING LIST BY POPULATING A TEMPLATE SHOPPING LIST OF ITEM…2025-10-24Pending00n/a
19303751SUBREGION TRANSFORMATION FOR LABEL DECODING BY AN AUTOMATED CHECKOUT SYSTEM2025-08-19Pending00n/a
15240427Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing2012-01-10Allowed1012.0 mo
15587528Composition and method for controlled release2015-02-11Abandoned4123.0 mo
15971403Distributed ledger transaction verification2018-03-12Allowed3020.0 mo
15392402Thermal management of battery assemblies2021-04-13Pending2117.0 mo
15791226Machine learning model for anomaly detection2012-05-14Allowed1014.0 mo
15338284Wireless power transfer coil arrangement2015-06-15Abandoned4125.0 mo
15699734Catalyst for selective hydrogenation2018-07-16Allowed3022.0 mo
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