ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,158, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Context based media curation" was invented by Kaveh Anvaripour (Santa Monica, Calif.), Ebony James Charlton (Los Angeles), Travis Chen (Los Angeles), Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles) and Kevin Dechau Tang (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media curation system configured to perform operations that include, capturing an image at a client device, wherein the image includes a depiction of an object, identifying an object category of the object based on the depiction of the object within the image, accessing media content associated with the ob...