ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,647, issued on April 8, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Extending user interfaces of mobile apps to AR eyewear" was invented by Piotr Gurgul (Hergiswil, Switzerland) and Sharon Moll (Wetzikon, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An architecture is provided for packaging visual overlay-based user interfaces (UIs) into mobile device applications to work as user interface extensions that allow certain flows and logic to be displayed on an eyewear device when connected to the mobile device application. The extension of the UIs of the mobile device applications to the display of the eyewear device allows for inex...