US Patent Issued to Snap on Nov. 25 for "Content-based incentive program within messaging system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,016, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Content-based incentive program within messaging system" was invented by Jacob Catalano (Burlington, Canada) and Yu Wang (Mill Valley, 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 a program and method for providing a content-based incentive program. The program and method provide for receiving, from a device, a request for submitting a media content item to a content feed associated with an incentive program providing for user payout based on meeting content crite...