ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,350, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for editing content items in augmented reality" 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 is disclosed. The method includes: generating an augmented reality (AR) scene that includes a virtual 3D representation of a product and a view of a first graphical user interface; monitoring user interactions with the virtual 3D representation of the product based...