ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,013, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Social account recovery" was invented by Vasyl Pihur (Santa Monica, Calif.), Jianping He (Los Angeles), Luke Ramsey (Marina del Rey, Calif.) and Benedict Copping (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing operations including: receiving, via a messaging application of a user device, a request to recover access to an account of a user of the messaging application; accessing a first object corresponding to a first key; receiving, from a first friend of the user on the messaging application, a second object correspon...