ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,324, issued on June 17, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Real-time display of multiple images" was invented by Matthew James Skyrm (Palo Alto, Calif.), Joshua Robert Russell Jacobson (San Francisco) and Eric P. Burke (Northville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user can share (show) multimedia information while simultaneously communicating (telling) with one or more other users over a network. Multimedia information is received from at least one source. The multimedia information may be manually and/or automatically annotated and shared with other users. The multimedia information may be displayed in an integ...