ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,589, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Generating and displaying customized avatars in media overlays" was invented by Nicholas Richard Allen (Venice, Calif.), Dorian Franklin Baldwin (Toronto), Jacob Edward Blackstock (Toronto), David James Kennedy (Toronto), Shahan Panth (Toronto) and Timothy Jordan Garcia (Toronto).
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 and imaging software and systems by generating and displaying media overlays with avatars of different users. For example, media overlays can be gen...