US Patent Issued to Shopify on July 1 for "Systems and methods for modeling real-world objects in virtual scenes" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,948, issued on July 1, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for modeling real-world objects in virtual scenes" was invented by Russ Maschmeyer (Berkeley, Calif.), Eric Andrew Florenzano (San Francisco), Brennan Letkeman (Calgary, Canada), Diego Macario Bello (Montreal) and Daniel Beauchamp (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes: obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a first real-world environment; identifying a real-world object of interest in a second real-world environment, the first real-world environment different from the second real-world environment; ...