Instacart Patents

Patent portfolio assigned to Instacart (verified via public assignee records). Patents confirmed under legal name assignee 'Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)' in Google Patents (clearly holds patents); exact count noisy (broad match 1941) so patent_count_estimate left at 0/unknown. 'Customers' for Instacart are retail/platform partners; Grubhub and MDI confirmed from Instacart newsroom press release. Competitor sourcing partly from press/CBI context.