ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,456, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Generating media content items during user interaction" was invented by Sergey Smetanin (London), Roman Golobokov (London), Emily Ann Claudet (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Dor Ayalon (Glasgow, Great Britain), Vladimir Gordienko (London), Erin Houston (Saratoga Springs, Utah), Ivan Babanin (London), Timur Zakirov (London), Nikita Demidov (London), Aleksandr Larionov (London), Anna Kovalenko (London) and Nikita Belosludtcev (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining participation in an interaction function by a first user of an interaction system w...