ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,567, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Providing travel-based augmented reality content relating to user-submitted reviews" was invented by Kaveh Anvaripour (Culver City, Calif.), Virginia Drummond (Venice, Calif.), Jean Luo (Seattle), Alek Matthiessen (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing augmented reality content relating to user-submitted reviews in association with traveling, in accordance with s...