ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,920, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Content navigation with automated curation" was invented by Jianchao Yang (Los Angeles), Yuke Zhu (Stanford, Calif.), Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.), Kevin Dechau Tang (Los Angeles) and Jia Li (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, methods, media, and instructions for automated image processing and content curation are described. In one embodiment a server computer system communicates at least a portion of a first content collection to a first client device, and receives a first selection communication in response, the first selecti...