ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,837, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Contextual visual and voice search from electronic eyewear device" was invented by David Meisenholder (Los Angeles), Kameron Sheffield (South Jordan, Utah), Joseph Timothy Fortier (Aspen, Colo.), Raymond Zeng (Long Island City, N.Y.), Andrei Rybin (Lehi, Utah) and Jonathan Geddes (Saratoga Springs, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Augmented reality features are selected for presentation to a display of an electronic eyewear device by using a camera of the electronic eyewear device to capture a scan image and processing the scan image to extract contextual s...