US Patent Issued to Snap on May 13 for "Voice input for AR wearable devices" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,521, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Voice input for AR wearable devices" was invented by Sharon Moll (Lachen, Switzerland), Piotr Gurgul (Hergiswil, Switzerland) and Tomasz Zakrzewski (Lachen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable media for voice input for augmented reality (AR) wearable devices are disclosed. Embodiments are disclosed that enable a user to interact with the AR wearable device without using physical user interface devices. A keyword is used to indicate that the user is about to speak an action or command. The AR wearable device divides...