ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,142, issued on June 24, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Media streaming to augmented reality glasses over a local network" was invented by Jeremy Littel (Seattle) and Dmitry Sobinov (Rockdale, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives, by one or more hardware processors implementing a local wireless network, a request from a client device to mirror media content displayed on a screen of the client device on a wearable device. In response to the request, the subject technology causes a display of the media content in a mirroring lens of the wearable device. While the media content is b...