ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,191, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"AR navigation aid for user guidance" was invented by Pawel Wawruch (Freienbach, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Augmented reality (AR) methods are provided for guiding user movement within an AR environment. The methods involve calculating an angle between the user's current viewing direction and a target location, and determining if this angle exceeds a visibility threshold of an AR display device. A guidance vector is computed to account for user movement, and a visual navigation aid corresponding to this vector is generated to direct the user towar...