ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,046, issued on July 1, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottowa, Canada).

"Augmented reality enabled dynamic product presentation" was invented by Daniel Beauchamp (Toronto), Byron Leonel Delgado (Ottawa) and Jonathan Wade (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein allow a customer to employ AR/VR software to generate virtual representations of physical spaces (e.g., house) and sub-spaces (e.g., living room) to preview virtual objects situated in AR/VR virtual environments. A commerce system (or mobile app associated with the commerce system) may generate virtualized environments representing a physical sp...