ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,527, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Generation of electronic media content collections" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Jonathan Brody (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Ken W. Chung (Los Angeles), Justin Huang (Los Angeles) and Teresa Lieh (Venice, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by automatically analyzing media content associated with a user and generating collections of such content (e.g., "stories") based on varying criteria."
The patent was filed o...