ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,704, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Customizing modifiable videos of multimedia messaging application" was invented by Jeremy Voss (Los Angeles), Victor Shaburov (Ocean Village, Gibraltar), Ivan Babanin (Saratov, Russia), Aleksandr Mashrabov (Los Angeles) and Roman Golobokov (Sochi, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for customizing modifiable videos. An example method includes analyzing recent messages associated with a user in a multimedia messaging application to determine a context of the recent messages, determining, based on the context, a property of a ...