US Patent Issued to Snap on Oct. 28 for "Cursor functionality for augmented reality content in messaging systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,263, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Cursor functionality for augmented reality content in messaging systems" was invented by Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.), Maxim Maximov Lazarov (Culver City, Calif.), Andrew James McPhee (Culver City, Calif.) and Daniel Moreno (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology detects a location and a position of a representation of a finger in a set of frames captured by a camera of a client device. The subject technology generates a first virtual object based at least in part on the location and the position of the representation of the finger...