US Patent Issued to Snap on Aug. 5 for "Protected data use in third party software applications" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,237, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Protected data use in third party software applications" was invented by Dylan Shane Eirinberg (Venice, Calif.), David Evans (Los Angeles), Adrian Jack Kant (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Alexander R. Osborne (Los Angeles), Matthew Saunders (Toronto) and William Wu (Marina del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide systems, methods, devices, and instructions for protected data use in a third-party software application, where use can be enabled while maintaining protection of the protected data from the third party software application. In part...