US Patent Issued to Snap on May 20 for "Selectable items providing post-viewing context actions" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,073, issued on May 20, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Selectable items providing post-viewing context actions" was invented by Marc Brown (New York), Shaun Harrison (Oakdale, Calif.), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles) and Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of generating selectable items providing post-viewing context actions starts with a processor receiving a media content item with first media overlay from first client device. Processor causes an active notification associated with the media content item to be displayed on a notif...