US Patent Issued to SNAP on Nov. 4 for "Combining individual functions into shortcuts within a messaging system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,925, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Combining individual functions into shortcuts within a messaging system" was invented by Kaveh Anvaripour (Culver City, Calif.) and Laurent Desserrey (Los Angeles).

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 combining individual functions into shortcuts. The program and method provide for accessing information for a shortcut for performing with respect to an image captured by a device camera, the shortcut corresponding to a combination of individua...