ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,791, issued on July 29, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Dual system on a chip eyewear" was invented by Jason Heger (Louisville, Colo.), Gerald Nilles (Culver City, Calif.) and Patrick Timothy Mcsweeney Simons (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Eyewear devices that include two SoCs that share processing workload. Instead of using a single SoC located either on the left or right side of the eyewear devices, the two SoCs have different assigned responsibilities to operate different devices and perform different processes to balance workload. In one example, the eyewear device utilizes a first SoC to...