ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,977, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Software development kit for image processing" was invented by Ebony James Charlton (Los Angeles), Patrick Mandia (Venice, Calif.), Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles) and Mykhailo Sokolov (Marina del Rey, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular image processing SDK comprises an API to receive API calls from third party software running on a portable device including a camera. SDK logic receives and processes commands and parameters received from the API that are based on the API calls received from the third party software. An annotation system p...