US Patent Issued to Snap on May 13 for "Selective collaborative object access" (New York, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,150, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Selective collaborative object access" was invented by Youjean Cho (New York), Chen Ji (New York), Fannie Liu (New York), Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Seattle), Tsung-Yu Tsai (Issaquah, Wash.) and Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Collaborative sessions in which access to added virtual content is selectively made available to participants/users. A participant (the host) creates a new session and invites participants to join. The invited participants receive an invitation to join the session. The session creator (i.e., the host) and o...