US Patent Issued to Snap on May 13 for "AR position and orientation along a plane" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,832, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"AR position and orientation along a plane" was invented by Avihay Assouline (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itamar Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Gal Dudovitch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Peleg Harel (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Gal Sasson (Kibbutz Ayyelet Hashahar, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for presenting AR items. The system performs operations including receiving a video that includes a depiction of one or more real-world objects in a real-world environment and obtaining depth data related to the real-world environment. ...