US Patent Issued to Snap on May 13 for "Handcrafted augmented reality effort evidence" (California, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, Michigan, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,825, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Handcrafted augmented reality effort evidence" was invented by Tianying Chen (Pittsburgh), Timothy Chong (Kirkland, Wash.), Sven Kratz (Mercer Island, Wash.), Fannie Liu (New York), Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Seattle), Olivia Seow (Cambridge, Mass.), Yu Jiang Tham (Seattle), Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.) and Lei Zhang (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Augmented reality (AR) systems, devices, media, and methods are described for capturing and presenting effort put into generating a handcrafted AR experience. AR object generation data is captur...