US Patent Issued to SNAP on March 4 for "Recorded sound thumbnail" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,956, issued on March 4, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Recorded sound thumbnail" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Jonathan Dale Brody (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Andrew Grosvenor Cooper (Los Angeles), Joseph Timothy Fortier (Los Angeles), Brandon Francis (New York), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Ranidu Lankage (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: displaying, by a messaging application, a sound capture screen that enables a user to record the sound; after the sound i...