ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,495, issued on April 29, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Media collection generation and privacy mechanisms" was invented by Jacob Andreou (Santa Monica, Calif.), Sheldon Chang (Venice, Calif.) and Donald Giovannini (Venice, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to generation of media collections in a messaging system. The media collection may be created by the user, other users, or an entity. Example embodiments further allow users to set access criteria through privacy settings assigned to one or more media content items themselves, as well as to a media collection, such...