US Patent Issued to SNAP on Sept. 16 for "Presenting shortcuts based on a scan operation within a messaging system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,564, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Presenting shortcuts based on a scan operation within a messaging system" was invented by Kaveh Anvaripour (Culver City, Calif.) and Laurent Desserrey (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting shortcuts based on a scan operation. The program and method provide for receiving a user request to identify at least one object depicted in an image captured by a device camera; determining, in response to receiving the user re...