ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,276, issued on April 22, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Voice notes with transcription" was invented by Alex Edelsburg (Seattle), Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.), Pedram Javidpour (Los Angeles), Andrew James McPhee (Culver City, Calif.), Daniel Moreno (Los Angeles) and Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A messaging system, which hosts a backend service for an associated messaging client application, includes a voice notes system that addresses the technical problem of serving an audio message to the recipient in a manner that permits the recipient to consume the message in a text format as...