US Patent Issued to Snap on April 15 for "Event planning in a content sharing platform" (California, New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,791, issued on April 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Event planning in a content sharing platform" was invented by David Taitz (Santa Monica, Calif.), Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles), David Zak Lipowicz (New York), Nathaniel Parrott (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Nayana Samaranayake (New York) and Ty Giacalone (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for receiving a selection to add an event invite media overlay to a media content item, receiving content to be added to the event invite media overlay, the content corresponding to an event, and adding to the event invite media overlay, ...