US Patent Issued to Snap on Aug. 19 for "Map-based graphical user interface for ephemeral social media content" (New York, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,318, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Map-based graphical user interface for ephemeral social media content" was invented by Daniel Amitay (New York City, N.Y.), Jonathan Brody (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Jeffrey Arthur Johnson (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Andrew Lin (Long Island City, N.Y.), Walton Lin (New York), John Rauser (Seattle) and Evan Spiegel (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A social media platform provides a map-based graphical user interface (GUI) with multiple geographically anchored icons that are selectable to trigger playback of respective galleries of ephemeral messages. Each of th...