US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 8 for "Smart ring for manipulating virtual objects displayed by a wearable device" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,524, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Smart ring for manipulating virtual objects displayed by a wearable device" was invented by Yu Jiang Tham (Seattle), Jonathan M. Rodriguez II (La Habra, Calif.) and Nir Daube (Pacific Palisades, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for using a handheld device such as a ring to manipulate a virtual object being displayed by a wearable device such as eyewear. The path of the virtual object in motion is substantially linked, in time and space, to the course traveled by a hand holding the handheld device. The met...