ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,504, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Media content playback and comments management" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles) and Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system include receiving a request from a client device to view a media content item, determining at least one comment associated with a respective user profile from a set of connected profiles, generating a summary comments selectable item based at least in part on the respective user profile, causing a display of playback of the media content item and the summary comments selectab...