ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,009, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Shared augmented reality unboxing experience" was invented by Gal Dudovitch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Stephanie Engle (San Francisco), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and Ma'ayan Mishin Shuvi (Givatayim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for providing a shared augmented reality unboxing experience. The operations include causing concurrent display of a shared augmented reality experience comprising a shared virtual box that is in a closed state on a plurality of client devices associated...