US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 8 for "Sculpting augmented reality content using gestures in a messaging system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,341, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Sculpting augmented reality content using gestures in a messaging system" was invented by Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.), Kurt Kaminski (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 from a set of frames, a first gesture, the first gesture corresponding to a pinch gesture. The subject technology detects a first location and a first position of a first representation of a first finger from the first gesture and a second location and a second position o...