US Patent Issued to Snap on Dec. 23 for "Collaborative object associated with a geographical location" (New York, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,239, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Collaborative object associated with a geographical location" was invented by Youjean Cho (New York), Chen Ji (New York), Fannie Liu (New York), Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Seattle), Tsung-Yu Tsai (Issaquah, Wash.) and Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Collaborative sessions in which access to added virtual content is selectively made available to participants/users. A participant (the host) creates a new session and invites participants to join. The invited participants receive an invitation to join the session. The session creato...