US Patent Issued to Snap on July 29 for "Trigger gesture for selection of augmented reality content in messaging systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,055, issued on July 29, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Trigger gesture for selection of augmented reality content in messaging systems" was invented by Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.), Maxim Maximov Lazarov (Culver City, Calif.), Andrew James McPhee (Culver City, Calif.) and Daniel Moreno (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology detects a first gesture corresponding to an open trigger finger gesture. The subject technology detects a location and a position of a representation of a finger from the open trigger finger gesture. The subject technology generates a first virtual object based at ...