ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,917, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Location-based timeline media content system" was invented by Alexander Collins (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Alexander Vodovoz (Inglewood, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for receiving a set of media content items including a geohash defining a captured time and a captured location of the media content item, identifying a first subset of media content items from the set of media content items comprising a geohash that equals a precision level threshold, and identifying a second subset of media content items from the set of media content...