US Patent Issued to Snap on Feb. 10 for "Techniques for using 3-D avatars in augmented reality messaging" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,267, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Techniques for using 3-D avatars in augmented reality messaging" was invented by Lien Le Hong Tran (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for facilitating the communication of text-based messages between end-users who are using messaging applications executing on client-based computing devices with different capabilities. Specifically, the messaging system described herein enables a first end-user to add a message element to a text-based message, which, when received by a message recipient using an augmented realit...