US Patent Issued to Snap on Nov. 4 for "Beautification techniques for 3D data in a messaging system" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,492, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Beautification techniques for 3D data in a messaging system" was invented by Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.), Samuel Edward Hare (Los Angeles), Maxim Maximov Lazarov (Culver City, Calif.), Tony Mathew (Los Angeles), Andrew James McPhee (Culver City, Calif.), Daniel Moreno (New York), Dhritiman Sagar (Marina del Rey, Calif.) and Wentao Shang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology applies, to image data and depth data, a 3D effect including at least one beautification operation based on an augmented reality content generator, the 3D effe...