ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,433, issued on July 29, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"System for new platform awareness" was invented by Sergio Azua-Izeta (Austin, Texas), Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Anton Bredykhin (Alameda, Calif.) and Yu Wang (Mill Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve providing a platform user notification to users in a chat session. A user device receives from a server chat status message data for a chat session. The user device detects a specified platform being used by a user in the chat session based on the chat status message data. The user device provides a chat...