US Patent Issued to Snap on Dec. 23 for "Virtual object manipulation with gestures in a messaging system" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,637, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Virtual object manipulation with gestures in a messaging system" was invented by Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.), Maxim Maximov Lazarov (Culver City, Calif.), Andrew James McPhee (Culver City, Calif.) and Daniel Moreno (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology detects a first gesture and a second gesture, each gesture corresponding to an open trigger finger gesture. The subject technology detects a third gesture and a fourth gesture, each gesture corresponding to a closed trigger finger gesture. The subject technology, selects a first virt...