US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 8 for "Virtual interfaces for controlling IoT devices" (California, New York, Washington, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,496, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Virtual interfaces for controlling IoT devices" was invented by Youjean Cho (New York), Lei Zhang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Daekun Kim (Santa Monica, Calif.), Ava Robinson (Solana Beach, Calif.), Yu Jiang Tham (Seattle), Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.) and Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual interface application presented in augmented reality (AR) is described for controlling Internet of Things (IoT) products. The virtual interface application enables a user of a portable electronic device to activate a virtual control inte...