ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,650, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Content collection navigation and autoforwarding" was invented by Jacob Andreou (Santa Monica, Calif.), Darryl Hudgin (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Evan Spiegel (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for communicating and displaying collections of image and video clip content are described. In one example embodiment, a device receives interface information about a group of content collections from a server computer system. When a user inputs a selection of a first content collection, the device displays images and video clips in a sequen...