US Patent Issued to Snap on May 27 for "Device-to-device collocated AR using hand tracking" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,485, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Device-to-device collocated AR using hand tracking" was invented by Jordy Innocentius Ajanohoun (Vienna), Markus Diem (Vienna), Georgios Evangelidis (Vienna) and Matthew Penney (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for aligning coordinate systems from separate handheld devices is described. In one aspect, the method includes accessing first pose data of a first handheld device, receiving second pose data of a second handheld device, detecting, from the first handheld device, hand-tracking data of a second user holding the second handheld device, and a...