ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,159, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Prioritized device actions triggered by device scan data" was invented by Kirk Ouimet (Orem, Utah), Rong Yan (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Yantao Zheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, devices, server computers, storage media, and instructions for prioritized device action triggered by device scan data are described. In one embodiment, a mobile device performs a method that involves executing a messaging application with an image capture interface and a scanning input. An associated scanning mode comprises capture of scan data f...