ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,924, issued on July 1, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Reward-based real-time communication session" was invented by Brian Anthony Smith (Brentwood, N.Y.) and Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interface to facilitate reward-based real-time communication between multiple users over a network. receiving, from a first device of a first user, a request for a real-time communication session. A request for a real-time communication session is receiv...