ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,066, issued on April 1, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Geospatial image surfacing and selection" was invented by David Meisenholder (Los Angeles), Celia Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles) and Donald Giovannini (Venice, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for presenting images on a mobile device. Images are presented by monitoring the location and the orientation of the mobile device, requesting previously captured images corresponding to where the previously captured images were captured in relation to the location from a server, receiving the requested previo...