US Patent Issued to Snap on Nov. 11 for "Augmented reality content to locate users within a camera user interface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,182, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Augmented reality content to locate users within a camera user interface" was invented by Virginia Drummond (Venice, Calif.), Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles) and Ibrahem Shekoni (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one or more implementations, augmented reality content items may be executable to indicate locations of contacts of a user within a camera user interface that is showing content being captured by one or more cameras of a client device. The locations of the contacts may be indicated by representations of the contacts (e.g....