ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,308, issued on April 8, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Context sensitive avatar captions" was invented by Newar Husam Al Majid (New York), Timothy Jordan Garcia (Toronto), Matthew Colin Grantham (Toronto), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Santa Monica, Calif.), Denise Marcela Martinez (Los Angeles) and David Whyte (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing operations including: receiving, by a messaging application, input that selects an option to generate a message using an avatar with a caption; presenting, by the messaging application, the avatar and a caption entry region ...