ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,574, issued on June 17, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for customizing live video streams" was invented by Samaneh Bayat (Kanata, Canada) and John Jong-Suk Lee (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving video data for a live video stream; identifying a product that is displayed in a video frame of the live video stream; obtaining identifying information for a viewer of the live video stream; determining a product variant preference for the viewer; obtaining a graphical representation of the product variant; and providing modi...