ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,926, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automatic image sharing with designated users over a communication network" was invented by Frank Dachille (Mountain View, Calif.), Anil Sabharwal (Rozelle, Australia), Kedar Kanitkar (Mountain View, Calif.), James Gallagher (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Timothy Novikoff (Mountain View, Calif.) and David Lieb (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to automatic sharing of images with designated users over a communication network. In some implementations, a method includes causing display of images in a user interface on a first device, e...