US Patent Issued to Lowe's Cos. on March 25 for "Virtualizing objects using object models and object position data" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,640, issued on March 25, was assigned to Lowe's Cos. Inc. (Mooresville, N.C.).

"Virtualizing objects using object models and object position data" was invented by Mason E. Sheffield (Woodinville, Wash.) and Josh Shabtai (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for receiving, from a first device, first data about a physical object located in a physical space. The techniques further including storing, in a catalog of objects generated for the physical space, information about the physical object and indicating at least a first location of the physical object in the physical space. The techniqu...