US Patent Issued to SNAP on April 8 for "Generating modified user content that includes additional text content" (California, New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,982, issued on April 8, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Generating modified user content that includes additional text content" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Andrew Grosvenor Cooper (Los Angeles), Suraj Vindana Samaranayake (New York), Vu Tran (Bellevue, Wash.), Yamill Vallecillo (Los Angeles) and Yiwen Zhan (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one or more implementations, user content items generated using a client application may be shared with users that are not contacts of the user within the client application. A user interface that indicates a number of recipients of the user...