ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,977, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"User interface to augment an image using geolocation" was invented by Nicholas Richard Allen (Venice, Calif.), Sheldon Chang (Venice, Calif.), Timothy Michael Sehn (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and William Wu (Marina del Rey, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a media filter publication application are described. The media filter publication application receives a content item and a selected geolocation, generates a media filter based on the content item and the selected geolocation, and supplies the media filter to a client device locate...