ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,738, issued on June 24, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Contextual reply augmentation system" was invented by Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles) and Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed that access relationship data of a first user of an interaction system to identify a second user of the interaction system associated with the first user, cause presentation of identification information for the second user within an interaction interface and, responsive to identifying an event pertaining to the second user, ca...