ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,211, issued on June 17, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"External messaging function for an interaction system" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles), Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles) and Xingnan Xia (Bellevue, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sender holds a first platform account with an interaction system. The sender selects a content item to be shared with a recipient. In response to determining that a recipient identifier of the recipient is not linked to a platform account, an off-platform communication is transmitted to a second user device associated with t...