ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,549, issued on March 4, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Off-platform messaging system" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Benedict Copping (Los Angeles), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Santa Monica, Calif.), Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles), David Taitz (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Mai Chi Tran (Garden Grove, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, to manage an event invitation in a computer network environment, comprises presenting, using one or more processors, an event invitation creation indicium to a first user on a user interface of a computing device. Responsive to user selection of ...