US Patent Issued to Snap on Oct. 7 for "Techniques for using 3-D avatars in augmented reality messaging" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,598, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Techniques for using 3-D avatars in augmented reality messaging" was invented by Lien Le Hong Tran (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a messaging application that executes on a wearable augmented reality device. The messaging application facilitates the anchoring or pinning of a 3-D avatar representing another end-user. An end-user wearing the AR device facilitates messaging with the other end-user via interactions with the 3-D avatar representing the other end-user. As such, the AR device processes various sensor inputs to ...