US Patent Issued to Snap on May 19 for "Gestures to enable menus using augmented reality content in a messaging system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,061, issued on May 19, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Gestures to enable menus using augmented reality content in a messaging system" was invented by Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.), Maxim Maximov Lazarov (Culver City, Calif.), Andrew James McPhee (Culver City, Calif.) and Daniel Moreno (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology detects a first location and a first position of a first representation of a first finger and a second location and a second position of a second representation of a second finger. The subject technology detects a first particular location and a first particular posit...