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US 1,097,436 · App. 29/826,413 · Granted Oct 7, 2025

Shopping cart

Inventors: Lin Gao (Miami, FL); Yilin Huang (Shanghai, CN); Ahmed Beshry (New York, NY); Shiyuan Yang (Jersey City, NJ); Michael Sanzari (Caldwell, NJ); Jungsoo Woo (Jersey City, NJ)
Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
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Patent No.
US 1,097,436
App. No.
29/826,413
Granted
Oct 7, 2025
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for a shopping cart as shown and described.

Assignments (2)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE INVENTOR'S NAME PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 60986 FRAME: 949. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Aug 12, 2025
From: GAO, LIN; HUANG, YILIN; BESHRY, AHMED; YANG, SHIYUAN; SANZARI, MICHAEL; WOO, JUNGSOO
To: MAPLEBEAR INC. (DBA INSTACART)
Reel/Frame 072445/0744 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 4, 2022
From: GAO, LINDON; HUANG, YILIN; BESHRY, AHMED; YANG, SHIYUAN; SANZARI, MICHAEL; WOO, JUNGSOO
To: MAPLEBEAR INC. (DBA INSTACART)
Reel/Frame 060986/0949 →
Continuity (1)
Division 29714115 · Nov 21, 2019
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