ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,353, issued on July 8, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Adding beauty products to augmented reality tutorials" was invented by Christine Barron (Los Angeles), Virginia Drummond (Venice, Calif.), Jean Luo (Seattle), Alek Matthiessen (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles), Jonathan Solichin (Arcadia, Calif.) and Olesia Voronova (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for adding beauty products to tutorials are presented. Methods include accessing video data comprising images of a presenter creating a tutorial, the tutorial depicting ...