US Patent Issued to Snap on Feb. 11 for "Low-latency delivery mechanism for map-based GUI" (New York, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,156, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Low-latency delivery mechanism for map-based GUI" was invented by Daniel Amitay (New York), Jonathan Brody (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Leonid Gorkin (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Jeffrey Arthur Johnson (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Andrew Lin (Long Island City, N.Y.), Walton Lin (Chatham, N.J.), Nayana Samaranayake (New York), Evan Spiegel (Los Angeles) and Marcel M. Yung (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server system for a map-based social media platform maintains user location information to enable the rendering of friend icons on a map at a corresponding display locations...