ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,214, issued on April 7, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Scannable codes as landmarks for augmented-reality content" was invented by Mason Spong (Provo, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to perform operations that include: generating, at a client device, a scan request that comprises image data, the image data comprising a depiction of a coded image that comprises a reference to a media repository; determining a set of coordinates that indicate a position and orientation of the coded image within a three-dimensional (3D) Euclidean space responsive to the scan request; defining a reference point at the cli...