ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,887, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Audio recommendation system that presents playlist of received audio tracks under recents tab" was invented by Ranidu Lankage (Belmont, Calif.), Christie Heikkinen (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Andrew Grosvenor Cooper (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio recommendation system adds a "recents" tab in a memory accessible to a messaging system including any audio tracks (songs or sounds) encountered by applications in order to allow quick access to any recently played songs or sounds provided in a message to/from another user or encountered during ...