ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,664, issued on March 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Creating time-based combination videos" was invented by Kaveh Anvaripour (Santa Monica, Calif.), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Santa Monica, Calif.) and David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user input content video is presented on a user system. A user input content combination indicium associated with a combination function is presented. Responsive to detection of a user selection of the user input content combination indicium, the combination function is activated. The combination function detects selection, by a user, of a portion...