ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,675, issued on March 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Blind assist glasses with remote assistance" was invented by Venu Iyengar (Fremont, Calif.) and Russell Douglas Patton (Playa Vista, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Eyewear with camera-based compensation that improves the user experience of eyewear devices for user's having partial blindness or complete blindness. To compensate for blindness, the camera-based compensation uses eyewear cameras to communicate a video feed, and a microphone to provide an optional audio feed, to a remote operator of a remote device to responsively assist the user to comple...