ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,177, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).
"Computer-implemented systems and methods and non-transitory computer readable medium for in-store product recommendations" was invented by Juho Mikko Haapoja (Toronto), Byron Leonel Delgado (Ottawa), Stephan Leroux (East Gwillimbury, Canada) and Daniel Beauchamp (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a person visits a physical retail store, the merchant often does not have enough information about the person to make meaningful product recommendations. Also, a physical retail store typically has products physically distributed throughout the store. It may be desirab...