ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,146, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"User interface including multiple interaction zones" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles) and Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content request is received from a user device of a viewing user of an interaction system. An interaction application executing at the user device presents a viewing user interface that includes a content zone and an interaction zone. A third-party content item is presented in the content zone. The interaction...