ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,146, issued on April 22, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Augmented reality auto reactions" was invented by Brian Anthony Smith (Brentwood, N.Y.), Yu Jiang Tham (Los Angeles) and Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein describe generating automatic reactions in an augmented reality messenger system. The claimed systems and methods generate a contextual trigger defining a set of conditions at a first computing device, detect at least one of the set of conditions has been satisfied, cause presentation of an augmented reality content item at a second computing device,...