ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,286, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DELTA SHOE TECH LTD. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Method and mobile device for capturing an image of a foot using augmented reality" was invented by Tsung-E Liao (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for capturing an image of a foot form a specific perspective using augmented reality (AR) includes generating an AR space based on a set of dimensions of a reference object, generating and displaying an AR foot placement object near the reference object, when a foot is on the AR foot placement object, generating and displaying an AR alignment object, a two-dimensional (2D) ali...