ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,138, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Rendering 3D captions within real-world environments" was invented by Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.), Samuel Edward Hare (Los Angeles), Maxim Maximov Lazarov (Culver City, Calif.), Tony Mathew (Irvine, Calif.), Andrew James McPhee (Culver City, Calif.), Daniel Moreno (New York) and Wentao Shang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and method for rendering three-dimensional captions (3D) in real-world environments depicted in imag...