US Patent Issued to Snap on Oct. 7 for "Voice controlled UIs for AR wearable devices" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,736, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Voice controlled UIs for AR wearable devices" was invented by Sharon Moll (Lachen, Switzerland) and Piotr Gurgul (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable media for voice-controlled user interfaces (UIs) for augmented reality (AR) wearable devices are disclosed. Embodiments are disclosed that enable a user to interact with the AR wearable device without using physical user interface devices. An application has a non-voice-controlled UI mode and a voice-controlled UI mode. The user selects the mode of the UI. T...