ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,243, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hooga Holdings Pty Ltd. (New South Wales, Australia).
"Image and message management and archiving for events" was invented by Belinda Buckley (Victoria, Australia), Adam Pryor (New South Wales, Australia) and Toby Blyth (New South Wales, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image archiving facility creates an image and other data archive relating to an event at a location when prompted by a downloaded application for a host user. The host user may approve guest users to upload to the archive. Approval may come from an image of a person uploaded to the data archive and recognized from bio...