US Patent Issued to Snap on Dec. 9 for "Selective collaborative object access based on timestamp" (New York, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,705, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Selective collaborative object access based on timestamp" 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 by a collaborative system. The system receives a request from a user to join a session, and associates a timestamp with the user corresponding to receipt of the request. User...