US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Sept. 8 for "Displaying an augmented reality element listing supplemental items associated with a detected item" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,398, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Displaying an augmented reality element listing supplemental items associated with a detected item" was invented by Chao Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bo Han (Brampton, Canada), Anton Danshin (Toronto), Yixi Ouyang (Milpitas, Calif.) and Michal Dobaczewski (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device or an online system communicating with the device receives video data captured by a camera of the device, in which the video data depicts a field of view of a display area of the device. The device/system detects an object within the field of view based on...