ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,618, issued on July 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Adding time-based captions to captured video within a messaging system" was invented by Kaveh Anvaripour (Culver City, Calif.), Christine Barron (Los Angeles), Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Ranidu Lankage (Belmont, Calif.), Daniel Moreno (New York), Shannon Ward (Venice, Calif.) and Tabari Williams (Oakland, 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 a program and method for adding time-based captions to capt...