US Patent Issued to Snap on July 14 for "Sharing social augmented reality experiences in video calls" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,092, issued on July 14, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Sharing social augmented reality experiences in video calls" was invented by Benedict Copping (Los Angeles), Laurent Desserrey (Los Angeles), Virginia Drummond (Venice, Calif.) and Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a system may establish a video call between a first device associated with a first user and a second device associated with a second user of a communications platform. The system may present a video interface for the video call, the video interface comprising a first video stream generate...