US Patent Issued to Snap on Feb. 25 for "Prohibited content propagation using a social network data structure" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,057, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Prohibited content propagation using a social network data structure" was invented by Mette F. M. Hammer (Dublin), Liam Harpur (Skerries, Ireland), Joseph M. Jaquinta (Medford, Mass.) and Pauli P. O. Nurmenkari (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for prohibiting email content propagation that receives, at a server, an email message. At the server, at least one email address associated with the email message which is designated not to receive a content of the email message is identified. At the server, the email message is modified by selectively re...