ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,529, issued on July 21, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Real-time augmented reality item guide" was invented by Tsun Kwan Donald Siu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real-time augmented reality item guide is described. A service platform may receive a digital image depicting at least one item. A plurality of listings for the at least one item on the service platform is identified via at least one machine learning model of the service platform based on the digital image, each of the plurality of listings associated with a respective point in time. An aspect is fetched from each of the plurality of listi...