ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,525, issued on June 30, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for generating augmented reality scenes for physical items" was invented by Jonathan Wade (Ottawa), Juho Mikko Haapoja (Toronto), Byron Leonel Delgado (Ottawa) and Daniel Beauchamp (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for the generation of augmented reality (AR) scenery for a physical item. The AR scenery allows a customer to interact with the physical item in the real-world, while also allowing the customer to view the physical item in a virtual setting that may be tailored to the customer and/or to the physical it...