ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,941, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Recommending relevant content augmentations based on context" was invented by Nikita Belosludtcev (London), Nikita Demidov (London), Roman Golobokov (London), Mariya Apanovych (Playa Vista, Calif.), Yuelin Cheng (Kirkland, Wash.), Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles), Sergey Smetanin (London) and David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a method includes determining that a listing of other users is to be displayed on a user interface for a first user, accessing augmentation trigger criteria, applying the augmentation trigger ...