ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,775, issued on May 13, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Augmented reality experience with lighting adjustment" was invented by Hanna Davidovich (Ramat Gan, Israel), Nir Malbin (Shoham, Israel) and Avihay Assouline (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for an augmented reality (AR) try-on experience with lighting adjustment. The system accesses an image that depicts a real-world person. The system retrieves an AR fashion item. The system applies the image and the AR fashion item to a machine learning model to estimate a lighting adjustment for the AR fashi...