ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,649, issued on July 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Context cards for media supplementation" was invented by Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles) and Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a method to present an affordance user interface element within a user interface of an interaction application includes detecting an association of a supplemental media content item with a primary media content item presented within the user interface. The supplemental media content item is identified from among a plurality of supplemental ...