ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,666, issued on June 17, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Virtual vision system" was invented by Ebony James Charlton (London), Jokubas Dargis (Santa Monica, Calif.), Eitan Pilipski (Los Angeles), Dhritiman Sagar (New York) and Victor Shaburov (Pacific Palisades, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A context based augmented reality system can be used to display augmented reality elements over a live video feed on a client device. The augmented reality elements can be selected based on a number of context inputs generated by the client device. The context inputs can include location data of the client device and loc...