ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,052, issued on June 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Mixing and matching volumetric contents for new augmented reality experiences" was invented by Sven Kratz (Mercer Island, Wash.), Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Princeton, N.J.), Brian Anthony Smith (New York) and Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A volumetric content presentation system includes a head-worn display device, which includes one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the display device to access AR content items that correspond to either real-world...