ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,017, issued on July 29, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Automated GIF generation platform" was invented by Kai Zhou (Wiener Neudorf, Austria) and Kenneth Au (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for generating an automated GIF file generation system is described. In one aspect, the method includes accessing an animated GIF file, identifying a plurality of elements displayed in the animated GIF file, applying a variation of one or more elements to the animated GIF file, and generating a variant animated GIF file by applying the variation of the one or more elements to the animate...