ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,987, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Surfacing augmented reality objects" was invented by Jennica Pounds (Cape Coral, Fla.), Qi Pan (London), Brent Michael Barkman (Los Angeles) and Ozi Egri (Yassur, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for a registry for augmented reality (AR) objects, which can provide AR objects to a client device to support various software or hardware applications. For instance, some embodiments provide for an AR object registry that facilitates or enables registration of one or more AR objects in association with one or more locations across a pl...