US Patent Issued to Snap on Oct. 21 for "Timelapse re-experiencing system" (New York, California, New Jersey, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,891, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Timelapse re-experiencing system" was invented by Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Sven Kratz (Mercer Island, Wash.), Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Princeton, N.J.) and Brian Anthony Smith (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system captures via one or more sensors of a computing device, data of an environment observed by the one or more sensors at a first timeslot, and stores the data in a data store as a first portion of a timelapse memory experience. The system also captures, via the one or more sensors of a computing device, data of the environment ob...