US Patent Issued to Snap on Feb. 18 for "Effects for 3D data in a messaging system" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,609, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Effects for 3D data in a messaging system" was invented by Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.), Samuel Edward Hare (Los Angeles), Maxim Maximov Lazarov (Culver City, Calif.), Tony Mathew (Irvine, Calif.), Andrew James McPhee (Culver City, Calif.), Daniel Moreno (New York), Dhritiman Sagar (Marina del Rey, Calif.) and Wentao Shang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives, at a client device, a selection of a selectable graphical item from a plurality of selectable graphical items, the selectable graphical item comprising an augment...