US Patent Issued to Snap on Oct. 21 for "Alignment of augmented reality components with the physical world" (Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,852, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Alignment of augmented reality components with the physical world" was invented by Lien Le Hong Tran (Santa Monica, Calif.), Olha Borys (Vienna), Ilteris Kaan Canberk (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Tobias Maier (Vienna) and Jakob Zillner (Absdorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed, including a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the system to perform operations. Surface plane information is obtained, defining a surface plane passing through a surface location and oriented ...