ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,325, issued on July 14, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) and Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"System and method for augmented reality effect customization in social media platforms through user-uploaded media" was invented by Weston Bell-Geddes (Los Angeles), Runze Zhang (Los Angeles), Kewei Chen (Beijing), Xiaocheng Tang (Los Angeles), Zeyong Cai (Los Angeles), Jianrong Ma (Beijing) and Runjia Tian (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for customization of augmented reality (AR) effects is described. The operations performed by the system includes determining whether a us...