ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,248, issued on March 24, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Augmented reality (AR)-based management of manual assembly processes" was invented by Russ Maschmeyer (Berkeley, Calif.), Eric Andrew Florenzano (San Francisco), Brennan Letkeman (Calgary, Canada), Diego Macario Bello (Montreal), Daniel Beauchamp (Toronto), Neil Leonard Padgett (Toronto), Hettige Ray Perera Jayatunga (Toronto), James Lepp (Ottawa) and Andrew Nhat-Nam Ngo (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining image data from a plurality of cameras providing views of a designated assembly zone; updatin...