ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,437, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Geo-fence authorization provisioning" was invented by Nicholas Richard Allen (Venice, Calif.) and Sheldon Chang (Venice, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a communication module that receives a request to post content to an event gallery associated with an event. The request in turn includes geo-location data for a device sending the content, and identification data identifying the device or a user of the device. The system further has an event gallery module to perform a first authorization operation that includes determining that the ge...