US Patent Issued to Snap on March 25 for "Media content item generation for a content sharing platform" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,230, issued on March 25, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Media content item generation for a content sharing platform" was invented by Ian Anthony Wehrman (Venice, Calif.), Giles Goodwin (San Francisco), Jared Iwata (Culver City, Calif.), Eugene Feingold (Santa Monica, Calif.) and David LeMieux (Hermosa Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining a set of selectors associated with the publisher identifier, each selector comprising specified content to extract from source data and one or more rules for extracting the specified content. The system and methods further...