ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,256, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Generating augmented reality content based on user-selected product data" was invented by Jean Luo (Seattle) and Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one or more implementations, information about a number of products may be obtained. Visual effects corresponding to each product may be applied to objects included in user content to change the appearance of the objects included in the user content. Augmented reality content may be implemented to cause changes to the appearance of one or more objects included in the user cont...