US Patent Issued to Snap on May 12 for "Integrating augmented reality into the web view platform" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,443, issued on May 12, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Integrating augmented reality into the web view platform" was invented by Virgil L. Archer III (Los Angeles), Kyle Dumo (Canoga Park, Calif.), Allen Huang (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Ngoan Nguyen (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Bernardo Perez (Los Angeles) and Aung Win Thein (Carson, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A methodology is described that provides access to an augmented reality (AR) component maintained by a messaging server system directly from a web view application. When a user activates, from a web view application executing in the messaging client, a...