ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,933, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Message based processor with transmission disabling mode" was invented by Orlando Miguel Pires dos Reis Moreira (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A message based processor comprises at least one processor cluster with a plurality of cluster elements each having a respective addressable storage space to store a state value indicative of its state, message handling utilities that are configured to receive input messages that designate specific ones of the plurality of cluster elements, and computation utilities that are configured to update a...