ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,775, issued on July 8, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Stated age filter" was invented by Patrick Mandia (Venice, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stated age filter is embedded in a computer-implemented application and is configured to limit users' access to features of the computer-implemented application based on the user's stated age. The stated age filter is constructed in the form of a software development kit (SDK) and may be used in the context of a messaging system that hosts a backend service for an associated messaging client, where the backend service is also the SDK provider system. The stated age...