ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,166, issued on June 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Detection and obfuscation of display screens in augmented reality content" was invented by Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives first image data captured by a camera of an eyewear device. The subject technology detects, using a machine learning model, a representation of a display screen in the first image data. The subject technology selects at least a portion of the representation of the display screen. The subject technology adjusts a visual appearance of the portion of the representation of the display ...