ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,901, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"External screen streaming for an eyewear device" was invented by Ilteris Kaan Canberk (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Bernhard Jung (Perchtoldsdorf, Austria), Shin Hwun Kang (Los Angeles), Daria Skrypnyk (Kyiv, Ukraine), Tianyi Sun (Culver City, Calif.) and Lien Le Hong Tran (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing operations on an augmented reality (AR) device using an external screen streaming system. The system establishes, by one or more processors of an AR device, a communication with an external clien...