ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,251, issued on March 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Shared augmented reality system" was invented by David Li (London), Isac Andreas Muller Sandvik (London), Qi Pan (London), Rastan Boroujerdi (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Kevin Yimeng Hong (Los Angeles), Peng Deng (Playa Vista, Calif.), Piers George Cowburn (London), Jonathan Tang (Los Angeles) and Junjie Wei (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality system to perform operations that include: accessing image data at a client device; determining a position of a user of the client device based on the image data; causing display of a pr...