US Patent Issued to Snap on April 21 for "Scissor hand gesture for a collaborative object" (New York, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,087, issued on April 21, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Scissor hand gesture for a collaborative object" was invented by Youjean Cho (New York), Chen Ji (New York), Fannie Liu (New York), Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Seattle), Tsung-Yu Tsai (Issaquah, Wash.) and Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Collaborative sessions in which access to a collaborative object and added virtual content is selectively provided to participants/users. In one example of the collaborative session, a participant crops media content by use of a hand gesture to produce an image segment that can be associated to...