ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,185, issued on March 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Messaging system for resurfacing content items" was invented by Jonathan Dale Brody (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Alexander Collins (Santa Monica, Calif.), Benedict Copping (Los Angeles) and Justin Huang (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer-readable storage media, and apparatuses for surfacing content items in a messaging system. The methods may include storing content items generated by a client device of a user. The method may further include determining a time period and content items corresponding to the time period to resurface to t...