ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,302, issued on June 10, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Hand-tracked text selection and modification" was invented by Sharon Moll (Lachen, Switzerland) and Dawei Zhang (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Augmented Reality (AR) system is provided. The AR system generates a text scene object including virtual text objects based on a text and detect a text selection gesture made by a user of the AR system. The AR system generates a selection line based on a landmark of the user's hand. The AR system detects a confirmation gesture made by the user and sets a text selection start point at an intersection of the s...