ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,628, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Augmented reality experiences with dynamically loadable assets" was invented by Ievgen Poloz (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Amar Boghani (Los Angeles), Hammad Bashir (San Francisco), Max Rogov (Medina, Wash.), Roman Shtemberko (Topanga, Calif.) and Gabriel Lupin (Marina del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for performing generating AR experiences on a messaging platform. The methods and systems perform operations including: receiving, from a client device, a request to access an AR experience; in response to receiving the...