US Patent Issued to Snap on April 1 for "Input modalities for AR wearable devices" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,057, issued on April 1, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Input modalities for AR wearable devices" was invented by Piotr Gurgul (Hergiswil, Switzerland) and Sharon Moll (Lachen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable media for input modalities for an augmented reality (AR) wearable device are disclosed. The AR wearable device captures images using an image capturing device and processes the images to identify objects. The objects may be people, places, things, and so forth. The AR wearable device associates the objects with tags such as the name of the object or a function...