ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,928, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"API to provide product cards generated by augmented reality content generators" was invented by Helene Causse (Seattle), Valentyn Fuchedzhy (Odesa, Ukraine), Amin Madani (Los Angeles), Alan Rawcliffe (Seattle) and Vincent Sung (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives a selection of a first representation of a product from a set of representations of products. The subject technology renders for display the first representation of the product based on metadata using an extension application programming interface (API). The subjec...