ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,244, issued on June 24, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Generating a live streaming video having real-time special effects" was invented by Artem Gaiduchenko (Marina de Rey, Calif.), Artem Yerofieiev (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Bohdan Pozharskyi (Venice, Calif.), Gabriel Lupin (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Oleksii Kholovchuk (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Travis Chen (Los Angeles), Yurii Monastyrshyn (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Denys Makoviichuk (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for generating a live streaming video having real-time special effects starts with a processor displaying on a display dev...