ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,658, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Augmented reality shared screen space" was invented by Ilteris Kaan Canberk (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Bernhard Jung (Perchtoldsdorf, Austria), Shin Hwun Kang (Los Angeles) and Daria Skrypnyk (Kyiv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable media for an augmented reality (AR) shared screen space. Examples relate to a host augmented realty (AR) device sharing a screen and a relative location of the AR device to the screen with guest AR devices where the guest AR devices share a relative location of the guest AR devices to a c...