ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,597, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"System and method of generating private notifications between users in a communication session" was invented by Matthew Colin Grantham (Toronto), Krish Jayaram (Santa Monica, Calif.), Tadeusz Kozak (Lane Cove, Australia), Jeremy Voss (Los Angeles) and David Whyte (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of generating private notifications between users in a communication session starts with an application server causing a communication interface to be displayed at a first client device and at a second client device, respectively. Application server receiv...