ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,931, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Searching social media content" was invented by Newar Husam Al Majid (New York), Wisam Dakka (San Francisco), Donald Giovannini (Venice, Calif.), Andre Madeira (Saratoga, Calif.), Andrei Damian (San Francisco), Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi (San Francisco), Yaming Lin (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ranveer Kunal (San Francisco), Congxing Cai (Mountain View, Calif.), Robson Araujo (Mountain View, Calif.), Guilherme Fernandes (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jungho Ahn (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-rea...