ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,336, issued on March 24, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Pinch sliders for use with hands" was invented by Katie Lu (Santa Monica, Calif.), Daria Skrypnyk (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Karen Stolzenberg (Venice, Calif.) and Lien Le Hong Tran (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eXtended Reality (XR) system is provided that generates an interactive XR user interface including 3D sliders for inputting a value for a variable. The XR system renders a 3D slider using a set of attributes and displays the 3D slider to a user as a component of the XR user interface. The XR system detects a pinch gesture of a...