US Patent Issued to Snap on Jan. 13 for "Recording following behaviors between virtual objects and user avatars in AR experiences" (California, New York, Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,124, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Recording following behaviors between virtual objects and user avatars in AR experiences" was invented by Lei Zhang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ava Robinson (Solana Beach, Calif.), Daekun Kim (Santa Monica, Calif.), Youjean Cho (New York), Yu Jiang Tham (Seattle), Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.) and Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are recording tools for generating following behaviors and creating interactive AR experiences. The following recording application enables a user with little or no programming skills to virtuall...