ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,892, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Guided personal identity based actions" was invented by Landon Anderton (Salt Lake City), Garrett Gee (Los Angeles), Ryan Hornberger (Playa Vista, Calif.), Kirk Ouimet (Orem, Utah), Kameron Sheffield (South Jordan, Utah) and Benjamin Turley (Lehi, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for guided personal identity based actions are provided. In example embodiments, a user-specified action from a first user device of a first user is received. The user-specified action pertains to the first user and uses data of the first user when performed. Th...