US Patent Issued to Snap on May 12 for "Virtual interaction session to facilitate augmented reality based communication between multiple users" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,718, issued on May 12, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Virtual interaction session to facilitate augmented reality based communication between multiple users" was invented by Brian Anthony Smith (New York), Yu Jiang Tham (Los Angeles), Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.) and Hemant Surale (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interface to facilitate augmented reality based communication between multiple users over a network. A first user of a first device is enabl...