ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,950, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Generating a response that depicts haptic characteristics" was invented by Jesse Chand (Los Angeles) and Krish Jayaram (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various example embodiments, a system and method for generating a response that depicts haptic characteristics are presented. Haptic data is received from a client device and the haptic data indicates an interaction with a sensor included in the client device. Haptic characteristics are determined based on the haptic data. At least one image that depicts the determined haptic characteri...