ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,139, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Virtual tutorials for musical instruments with finger tracking in augmented reality" was invented by Ilteris Canberk (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Dmytro Kucher (Odessa, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, media, and methods are described for presenting a tutorial in augmented reality on the display of a smart eyewear device. The system includes a marker registration utility for setting a marker on a musical instrument, a localization utility, a virtual object rendering utility for presenting virtual tutorial objects on the display near the...