ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,756, issued on March 17, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Graphical assistance with tasks using an AR wearable device" was invented by Piotr Gurgul (Hergiswil, Switzerland) and Sharon Moll (Lachen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable media for graphical assistance with tasks using an augmented reality (AR) wearable devices are disclosed. Embodiments capture an image of a first user view of a real-world scene and access indications of surfaces and locations of the surfaces detected in the image. The AR wearable device displays indications of the surfaces on a display of...