ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,403, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Media overlay publication system" was invented by Rong Yan (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Peter Sellis (Venice, Calif.), Andrew G. Cooper (Los Angeles) and Yantao Zheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented that provide for receiving, at a media overlay publication system from a first client device, content to generate a media overlay, and generating the media overlay using the content received from the client device. The generated media overlay is stored in a database associated with the media overlay publication syste...