US Patent Issued to Snap on April 1 for "Orientation of augmented content in interaction systems" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,063, issued on April 1, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Orientation of augmented content in interaction systems" was invented by Luke Cartwright (Seattle) and Ilteris Kaan Canberk (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-wearable apparatus determines an imaginary reference plane intersecting a head of a user viewing augmented content in a viewing pane having vertical and lateral dimensions in a display of the head-wearable apparatus. The imaginary reference plane coincides with a first viewing direction of the head of the user. The apparatus detects a rotational movement of the head of the user...