US Patent Issued to Snap on May 27 for "Invitation media overlays for private collections of media content items" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,587, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Invitation media overlays for private collections of media content items" was invented by David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of generating invitation media overlays for private collections starts with processor receiving first media content item from first client device associated with first user. Processor receives from first client device a selection of invitation media overlay to be applied to media content item. Invitation media overlay is associated with private collection of media content items. Processor generates modi...