ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,412, issued on June 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Management of electronically published collections of content" was invented by Howard C. Lee (Los Angeles), William Spencer Mulligan (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Todd Seth Sherman (Los Angeles), Weiping Si (Los Angeles) and Yamill Antonio Vallecillo (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a method for managing electronically published collections of content. The method may include accessing a content collection that comprises one or...