US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Sticker creation for messaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,625, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sticker creation for messaging" was invented by Ron C. Santos (San Jose, Calif.), Jennifer P. Chen (Mountain View, Calif.) and Saumitro Dasgupta (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device detects a first user input corresponding to a request to initiate a process to create a first sticker based on a first image including one or more objects, and facilitates creation of the sticker based on the first image. The first sticker can then be displayed in a messaging conversation."

The patent was filed on June 2, 202...