ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,834, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Version control in networked environments" was invented by William Eastcott (Los Angeles), Zachary Paul (Santa Monica, Calif.), David Evans (Los Angeles) and Vaios Kalpias Ilias (Culver City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments provide a version control system within a social networking environment. The disclosed embodiments perform operations comprising: storing, in a database, application data that is structured as a tree graph comprising nodes in the form of branches connected by respective edges, each child branch being connect...