ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,506, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"3D models for augmented reality (AR)" was invented by Marwan Aljubeh (London), Gregory James Bakker (Clapham, Great Britain), Eric Nersesian (Summit, N.J.), Supannee Tanathong (London) and Yanli Zhao (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for creating a 3D model of a reference surface. The method includes capturing, using a capture device, a plurality of data points on the reference surface, determining a position and an orientation of the capture device related to the capture of the plurality of data points, creating a 3...