US Patent Issued to SNAP on Aug. 4 for "Augmented reality system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,192, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Augmented reality system" was invented by David Li (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure concerns an augmented reality method in which visual information concerning a real-world object, structure or environment is gathered and a deformation operation is performed on that visual information to generate virtual content that may be displayed in place of, or additionally to, real-time captured image content of the real-world object, structure or environment. Some particular embodiments concern the sharing of visual environment data and/or information...