ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,555, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Input parameter based image waves" was invented by Sagi Katz (Yokneam Ilit, Israel), Matan Zohar (Haifa, Israel) and Ilya Levin (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual wave creation system comprises an eyewear device that includes a frame, a temple connected to a lateral side of the frame, and a depth-capturing camera. Execution of programming by a processor configures the virtual wave creation system to generate, for each of multiple initial depth images, a respective wave image by applying a transformation function that is responsive to a s...