ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,965, issued on July 8, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"AR system bending correction" was invented by Matthias Kalkgruber (Vienna), Tiago Miguel Pereira Torres (Vienna), Weston Welge (Boulder, Colo.) and Ramzi Zahreddine (Denver).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for deformation or bending correction in an Augmented Reality (AR) system. Sensors are positioned in a frame of a head-worn AR system to sense forces or pressure acting on the frame by temple pieces attached to the frame. The sensed forces or pressure are used in conjunction with a model of the frame to determine a corrected model of the frame. The corr...