US Patent Issued to eBay on Oct. 7 for "Augmented reality system and method for visualizing an item" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,333, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Augmented reality system and method for visualizing an item" was invented by John Tapley (Santa Clara, Calif.), David Beach (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Bagath Pugazhendhi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system and method for searching, browsing, and visualizing items, a first image containing an item is received to be stored in an account associated with a user. The first image is processed using a processor to extract an image of the item from the first image. The image of the item is layered over a stream of video frames received from the client ...