US Patent Issued to Snap on July 15 for "Authenticating a selective collaborative object" (New York, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,106, issued on July 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Authenticating a selective collaborative object" was invented by Youjean Cho (New York), Chen Ji (New York), Fannie Liu (New York), Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Seattle), Tsung-Yu Tsai (Issaquah, Wash.) and Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collaborative session (e.g., a virtual time capsule) in which access to a collaborative object and added virtual content is selectively provided to participants/users. In one example of the collaborative session, authentication of the collaborative object is performed by all of the users to com...