US Patent Issued to Snap on June 17 for "Geometry modeling of eyewear devices with flexible frames" (Austrian, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,452, issued on June 17, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Geometry modeling of eyewear devices with flexible frames" was invented by Clemens Birklbauer (Vienna), Georg Halmetschlager-Funek (Vienna), Jeroen Hol (Hengelo, Netherlands), Matthias Kalkgruber (Vienna) and Daniel Wagner (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eyewear device with flexible frame for Augmented Reality (AR) is disclosed. At least two sensors and a display are mounted on the flexible frame. When in use, the real time geometry of the eyewear device may change from factory calibrated geometry, resulting in low quality AR rendering. A modeling mo...