ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,309, issued on April 8, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Providing permissions for accessing shared content collections" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Siqi Chen (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Matthew Lee Cook (San Francisco), Andrew Grosvenor Cooper (Los Angeles), Benedict Copping (Los Angeles), Edward Koai (Santa Monica, Calif.), Tao Marvin Liu (Marina de Rey, Calif.), Yiwen Zhan (Venice, Calif.) and Mian Zhang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing permiss...