ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,014, issued on April 8, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Post-capture editing of augmented reality content" was invented by Faisal Alqadi (Santa Monica, Calif.), Omer Cansizoglu (Mercer Island, Wash.), Nicolai Darmancev (Odesa, Ukraine), Ivan Golub (Playa Vista, Calif.), Hwan Moon Lee (Los Angeles), Xiaorong Li (Los Angeles), David Meisenholder (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Quinton Roberts (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Yihuan Zhou (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives, by a client device from a storage device, first image data captured by the client device at a previous time. The su...