ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,837, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating augmented reality prerenderings using template images" was invented by James Sraw Singh (New York), Ivan Neulander (Los Angeles), Subramanian Shyamsunder Mathur (New York) and Agustin III Olivan Venezuela (Queens, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating augmented reality prerenderings can provide the benefit of an augmented reality rendering without requiring the use of user data. Template images can be used instead of user data to protect the user's privacy while enabling the user to see an object or product rendere...