ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,456, issued on April 22, was assigned to Planet Social LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Client device with application for grouping and facilitating deletion of photographs from memory" was invented by Kristina Kernick (Johnson City, Texas), Katherine C. Stuckman (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Bruce Edward Stuckman (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device includes: a display device that includes a touchscreen; a camera; a global positioning system (GPS) device; at least one processor; and a memory that stores a plurality of photographs generated by the camera, application data corresponding to a plurality of applications including...