ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,065, issued on March 25, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Interface to display animated icon" was invented by Jeremy Voss (Los Angeles), Jesse Chand (Los Angeles), Dylan Shane Eirinberg (Venice, Calif.), William Wu (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Chiayi Lin (Los Angeles) and Anna Liberman (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to mobile computing technology and, more particularly, but not by way of limitation, to systems for generating and presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a presentation of an animated icon (e.g., a digital pet) ...