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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2023
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Ruoruo Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Christopher Benjamin, Larchmont, NY (US);
Michael Sandare, New York, NY (US);
Lin Gao, Miami, FL (US);
Graham Beauregard, Burlington, CA;
Maplebear Inc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer system for predicting an anomaly behavior (fraudulent behavior) for a user of a smart shopping cart (physical receptacle). The computer system gathers data associated with a physical activity of the user, the user being physically present at a location of a retailer and adding one or more items from the location of the retailer to the physical receptacle. The computer system applies a computer model to detect, based on the gathered data, one or more anomalies during the physical activity of the user, the one or more anomalies being indicative of the fraudulent behavior. In response to determining that the one or more detected anomalies satisfy a threshold condition for the fraudulent behavior, the computer system sends a communication to a management system of the retailer to cause at least one remedial action to be performed before the user physically leaves the location of the retailer.