US Patent Issued to Maplebear on April 22 for "Method, medium, and system for synchronizing a rendering of a physical space in a virtual reality environment with the physical space" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,947, issued on April 22, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method, medium, and system for synchronizing a rendering of a physical space in a virtual reality environment with the physical space" was invented by Leho Nigul (Aurora, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system receives information describing a physical retail store, in which the information includes attributes of physical elements within the store and their arrangement. A request is received from a user to generate a rendering of the store in a virtual reality environment. A profile of the user describing the user's geographic location and a set ...