ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,729, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Messaging application with conversation filtering" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Daniel Moreno (Los Angeles), David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles), Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles) and Yu Wang (Mill Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for filtering conversations. The system generates for display, by a messaging application, a plurality of shortcut options, each of the plurality of shortcut options comprising a respective filtering criterion. In response to receiving input that select...