US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 15 for "Dynamic virtual reality shopping shelf interface" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,595, issued on April 15, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic virtual reality shopping shelf interface" was invented by Katsuyuki Sakuma (Fishkill, N.Y.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for providing virtual reality shopping provides generating, by a virtual reality (VR) engine, a VR user interface (UI) and a VR session within a VR device. A list of discounted items being discounted based on proximity to an expiration or best by use date is received from the computing device of an institution item source. A VR image of virtua...