US Patent Issued to SNAP on Feb. 17 for "Applying augmented reality animations to an image" (California, New York, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,274, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Applying augmented reality animations to an image" was invented by Xin An (New York), Jim T. Diep (Los Angeles), Jacob Knipfing (Culver City, Calif.), Matthew Mahar (San Francisco), Tony Mathew (Irvine, Calif.), Wentao Shang (Los Angeles), Sarah Werum (Oakland, Ga.) and Lingzhi Zhang (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for applying augmented reality animations to an image. The methods and systems access an image and select an augmented reality (AR) experience to apply to the image, the AR experience comprising ...