US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 9 for "User classification based notification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,587, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"User classification based notification" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Siqi Chen (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Edward Koai (Santa Monica, Calif.), Yansong Liu (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles) and Khoi Tran (West Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A classification based notification system is disclosed which performs operations that include: accessing user profile data associated with a user account associated with a client device, the user profile data including a list of user connections; designatin...