ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,837, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Message reminder interface" was invented by Newar Husam Al Majid (New York), Laurent Desserrey (Los Angeles), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Nathaniel Parrott (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Jeremy Voss (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A message reminder system, to perform operations that include: causing display of a presentation of a message addressed to a user, at a first position among a message feed of the user at a client device; receiving a request to open the message from the user of the client device, the request including a timestamp;...