ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,410, issued on May 19, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Memories and moments in augmented reality (AR)" was invented by Virginia Drummond (Venice, Calif.), Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles) and Ibrahem Shekoni (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the method includes causing presentation of a camera interface, the camera interface to display a first image captured by a camera of a computing device of a first user, causing presentation of a plurality of augmentation icons within the camera interface, each of the image augmentation icons being associated with a respective image augm...