US Patent Issued to Snap on July 8 for "Additive friend suggestion for account security" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,784, issued on July 8, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Additive friend suggestion for account security" was invented by Jonathan Brody (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Donald Giovannini (Venice, Calif.), Edward Koai (Santa Monica, Calif.), Jie Wu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Lin Zhong (Medina, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, devices, instructions, and media are described for generating suggestions for connections between accounts in a social media system. One embodiment involves storing connection graph information for a plurality of user accounts, and identifying, by one or more processors of the device, a...