ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,858, issued on March 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Displaying content feeds within a messaging system" was invented by Newar Husam Al Majid (New York), Alex Beltyukov (Marina de Rey, Calif.), Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Jacob Catalano (Santa Monica, Calif.), Wenbin Chen (Santa Monica, Calif.), Matthew Lee Cook (San Francisco), Andrew Grosvenor Cooper (Los Angeles), Zuoyou Gu (Los Angeles), Yue Hu (Los Angeles), Timothy Kautz (Santa Monica, Calif.), Edward Koai (Santa Monica, Calif.), Jong-Hwi Lee (Kirkland, Wash.), Chinmay Lonkar (Playa Vista, Calif.), Lu Lu (San Francisco), Zachary Lupei (Los Angeles), Charles Melbye (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Celia ...