ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,846, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Computer-guided item creation and interaction" was invented by Walterio Wolfgang Mayol Cuevas (Seattle), Glenn Andrew Dyck (Seattle), Gordon Mueller (Poulsbo, Wash.), Monica Jean Parsons (Seattle), Nataliya Shapovalova (Sammamish, Wash.), Sarah Maurine Role Schaffer (Seattle) and Lorien S Miller (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for computer-guided item creation and interaction include causing display of item creation templates and directions for creating an item from an object. Image data and infrared data is collected and utilized...