US Patent Issued to Snap on Aug. 5 for "Occlusion detection system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,772, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Occlusion detection system" was invented by Piers George Cowburn (London), David Li (London), Isac Andreas Muller Sandvik (London) and Qi Pan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occlusion detection system to perform operations that include: capturing image data that depicts an environment at a client device, the environment including a target object at a position within the environment; causing display of a presentation of the environment at the client device, the presentation of the environment including a display of the target object at the position with...