ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,089, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Augmented reality ergonomics evaluation system" was invented by Yubin Xi (San Jose, Calif.) and Kai Zhou (Wiener Neudorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ergonomics evaluation system for AR applications of an AR device is described. In one aspect, a method includes accessing user interface elements of an augmented reality application, accessing a plurality of user models and corresponding simulated augmented reality device sensor data for the plurality of user models, identifying simulated user interactions, from the plurality of user models, with a s...