ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,722, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"On-device two step approximate string matching" was invented by Vasyl Pihur (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Scott Thompson (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personalized preview system to receive a request to access a collection of media items from a user of a user device. Responsive to receiving the request to access the collection of media items, the personalized preview system accesses user profile data associated with the user, wherein the user profile data includes an image. For example, the image may comprise a depiction of a face, wherein ...