ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,815, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Request queue for shared control of camera device by multiple devices" was invented by Brian Anthony Smith (Brentwood, N.Y.) and Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interface to facilitate a camera sharing session between two or more users. A camera sharing session is initiated based on session configuration information comprising a user identifier of a user permitted to control image capt...