US Patent Issued to Hatch Networks on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for social matching with partial, conditional image reveal" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,001, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hatch Networks Inc. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for social matching with partial, conditional image reveal" was invented by Mitchell Evan Alterman (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for social matching with partial, conditional picture reveal are disclosed. A method may include: (1) receiving a profile and a picture from a plurality of users; (2) identifying a potential match between two users based on the profiles; (3) presenting an obscured or covered picture of the users to each other; (4) presenting a first question to the users; (5) receiving responses to the fir...