US Patent Issued to Snap on Jan. 13 for "Location-based search mechanism in a graphical user interface" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,128, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Location-based search mechanism in a graphical user interface" was invented by Daniel Amitay (New York), Jonathan Brody (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Timothy Jordan Garcia (Toronto), Leonid Gorkin (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Andrew Lin (Long Island City, N.Y.), Walton Lin (Chatham, N.J.), Evan Spiegel (Los Angeles) and Nayana Samaranayake (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A social media platform provides a map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for accessing social media content submitted for public accessibility via the social media platform supported by the map-...