US Patent Issued to Snap on Aug. 26 for "Media control tools for managing communications between devices" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,650, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Media control tools for managing communications between devices" was invented by Alexander Sourov (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media control tools for controlling communications between devices are described. A communications application allows a user to selectively signal another device to interrupt a presentation in progress on the other device, and to send a prioritized speech to the other device in accordance with a media priority. The prioritized speech may be translated and presented in a select language. The application detects an interrupt c...