US Patent Issued to SHOPIFY on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for overlay of virtual object on proxy object and concealment of proxy object" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,560, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for overlay of virtual object on proxy object and concealment of proxy object" 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: "To improve user experience when interacting with AR content within an AR environment, the AR content may be overlaid over a proxy object in a real-world space. Differences in dimension between the proxy object and the virtual model may be such that the obj...