ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,055, issued on June 3, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for generating augmented reality content based on distorted three-dimensional models" was invented by Juho Mikko Haapoja (Toronto), Byron Leonel Delgado (Ottawa), Stephan Leroux (East Gwillimbury, Canada), Daniel Beauchamp (Toronto) and Maas Mansoor Ali Lalani (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating AR content to virtually alter a real-world item are provided. The real-world item may be a deformable item including one or more flexible surfaces. According to an embodiment, a method includes determining the relative posi...