ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,231, issued on July 14, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Multi-purpose cameras for simultaneous capture and CV on wearable AR devices" was invented by Bo Ding (Los Angeles), Chintan Doshi (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Alexander Kane (Vienna), John James Robertson (Los Angeles) and Dmitry Ryuma (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Eyewear having an image signal processor (ISP) dynamically operable in a camera pipeline for augmented reality (AR) and computer vision (CV) systems. Multi-purpose cameras are used for simultaneous image capture and CV on wearable AR devices. The cameras are coupled to a frame a...