ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,405, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Coded vision system" was invented by Ebony James Charlton (Los Angeles), Omer Cansizoglu (Mercer Island, Wash.), Kirk Ouimet (Orem, Utah) and Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for presentation of computer vision (e.g., augmented reality, virtual reality) using user data and a user code is disclosed. A client device can detect an image feature (e.g., scannable code) in one or more images. The image feature is determined to be linked to a user account. User data from the user account can then be used to generate ...