ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,933, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Collaborative augmented reality eyewear with ego motion alignment" was invented by Branislav Micusik (St. Andrae-Woerdern, Austria), Georgios Evangelidis (Vienna) and Daniel Wagner (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience between two eyewear devices by using alignment between respective 6DOF trajectories, also referred to herein as ego motion alignment. An eyewear device of user A and an eyewear device of user B track the eyewear device of the other user, or an object of the other user, such as on the ...