US Patent Issued to Snap on April 22 for "Network resource location linking and visual content sharing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,646, issued on April 22, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Network resource location linking and visual content sharing" was invented by Imran Patel (Venice, Calif.) and William Wu (Marina del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for transmitting shared visual content between networked devices with a linked source for the visual content by accessing and presenting visual content, receiving a network location for a network resource associated with the visual content, linking the network location to the visual content to generate linked visual content, and cause p...