US Patent Issued to SHOPIFY on Dec. 2 for "Build and update a virtual store based on a physical store" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,384, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottowa, Canada).

"Build and update a virtual store based on a physical store" was invented by Juho Mikko Haapoja (Toronto), Byron Leonel Delgado (Ottawa) and Stephan Leroux (East Gwillimbury, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for building and updating a virtual store based on a physical store. A computing system is structured to receive captured images of a physical space having a set of products. The physical space is simulated by a three-dimensional (3D) model of the physical space. A corresponding representation of the set of products ...