ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,187, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Footwear mirror experience" was invented by Matan Zohar (Rishon LeZion, Israel), Itamar Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Gal Sasson (Kibbutz Ayyelet Hashahar, Israel) and Omri Berg (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for providing a footwear mirror experience. The system accesses a video stream captured by a camera directed at feet of users. The system detects a depiction of one or more feet of a user in the video stream captured by the camera. The system, in response to detecting the one or more feet...