ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,632, issued on April 15, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Augmented reality experiences with dual cameras" was invented by Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.), Pedram Javidpour (Los Angeles), Maxim Maximov Lazarov (Culver City, Calif.), Andrew James McPhee (Culver City, Calif.) and Daniel Moreno (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for generating AR experiences on a messaging platform. The methods and systems perform operations including: detecting a real-world object depicted in a first image captured by a first camera of a client device, the client device comprising a second came...