US Patent Issued to Shopify on April 1 for "System and method for updating electronic content by selectively replacing virtual 3D objects" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,068, issued on April 1, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"System and method for updating electronic content by selectively replacing virtual 3D objects" was invented by Russ Maschmeyer (Berkeley, Calif.) and Brennan Letkeman (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for updating electronic content by selectively replacing virtual 3D objects being displayed in an electronic environment. The method includes in one example, presenting augmented reality (AR) content, the presented AR content showing a set of objects, at least some of the objects of the set of objects being rendered 3D objects;...