ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,453, issued on June 24, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Augmented reality try-on experience for friend" was invented by Matan Zohar (Rishon LeZion, Israel) and Itamar Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for providing an AR try-on experience for a friend. The system accesses a plurality of images that depict one or more persons. The system receives input that identifies a given person of the one or more persons who is depicted in an individual image of the plurality of images. The system extracts features of the given person depicted in the i...