US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 23 for "Providing reduced availability modes in messaging" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,361, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Providing reduced availability modes in messaging" was invented by Jeremy Voss (Los Angeles), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Daniel Rakhamimov (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Laurent Desserrey (Los Angeles), Susan Marie Territo (Los Angeles) and Edward Koai (Santa Monica, Calif.).

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 providing reduced availability modes in messaging. The program and method provide for maintaining a count of consecutiv...