ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,651, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Augmented reality content generators for identifying destination geolocations and planning travel" was invented by Kaveh Anvaripour (Culver City, Calif.), Virginia Drummond (Venice, Calif.), Jean Luo (Seattle), Alek Matthiessen (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Charles Melbye (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology causes display, at the client device, a set of augmented reality content items generated by the first augmented reality content generator. The subject technology receives, at t...