ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,061, issued on March 25, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Interface for engaging IoT devices with AR camera" was invented by Shin Hwun Kang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling an Internet of Things (IoT) device through interaction with an augmented reality (AR) camera includes pairing an interactable augmented reality (AR) overlay with the IoT device. The interactable overlay includes control information for generating a control signal for controlling the IoT device when the interactable overlay is interacted with by the AR camera. The interactable overlay is presented on...