ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,687, issued on July 8, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Content collections linked to a base item" was invented by Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to facilitate content sharing are described. A second device of a second user selects a first user input content item that was shared to a first content collection by a first user using a first device. The second device is enabled to combine the first user input content item with a second user input content item to create a combined user input content item. In response t...