US Patent Issued to Shopify on Sept. 23 for "Methods for calibrating augmented reality scenes" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,924, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Methods for calibrating augmented reality scenes" was invented by Neil Leonard Padgett (Toronto), Russ Maschmeyer (Berkeley, Calif.), Eric Andrew Florenzano (San Francisco), Brennan Letkeman (Calgary, Canada), Andrew Nhat-Nam Ngo (Toronto), Hettige Ray Perera Jayatunga (Toronto), James Lepp (Ottawa) and Diego Macario Bello (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: determining a first position of a real display device in a real-world environment; receiving a request to display virtual information at a secon...