ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,388, issued on April 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Content suggestion system" was invented by Mariya Apanovych (Calabasas, Calif.), William Brendel (Los Angeles), Oleksandr Grytsiuk (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Yurii Husiev (Culver City, Calif.), Luis Carlos Dos Santos Marujo (Culver City, Calif.) and Jeremy Voss (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems for presenting content suggestions within a messaging interface. A content suggestion system performs operations that include: receiving inputs that include a text string into a messaging interfa...