ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,244, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Geo-fence selection system" was invented by Samir Ahmed (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Amit Gaur (Los Angeles), Jean Luo (Seattle) and Yang Wen (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to improvements to systems and methods for determining a current location of a client device, and for identifying and selecting appropriate geo-fences based on the current location of the client device. An improved geo-fence selection system performs operations that include associating media content with a geo-fence that encompasses a portion o...