ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,470, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to WhatsApp LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Ephemeral messaging in a decentralized end-to-end encrypted messaging platform" was invented by Jimmy Enrico Jacques Holzer (Redwood City, Calif.), Kevin Matthew Christensen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shalini Sah (Menlo Park, Calif.), Santiago Pina Ros (Las Vegas), Elton Kyin-Fong Leong (San Francisco), Zafir Khan (Houston), Dafeng Ou (San Leandro, Calif.) and Tuan Van Nguyen (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media for providing ephemeral messages are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive, at a first device, a request ...