ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,241, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Media preview system" was invented by Omer Cansizoglu (Mercer Island, Wash.), Chang Li (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Brennan Erbeznik (Los Angeles), Giovanni Gardelli (Los Angeles), Ryan Hornberger (Playa Vista, Calif.) and Jingou Xu (Marina del Rey, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The media preview system receives media content from one or more client devices, generates a preview of the media content, associates a coded image with the preview within a database associated with the media preview system, detects scans of the coded image from client devices, an...