US Patent Issued to Block on June 30 for "Media content modification with access control configurations" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,278, issued on June 30, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Media content modification with access control configurations" was invented by Truan Savage (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Madeeha Ghori (Fremont, Calif.) and Ryan Tai (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media content platform is described. In accordance with the described techniques, a first request is received from an artist entity to make a media content item available for modification by other entities on the media content platform. The first request includes one or more access controls that control use of the media content item. The media content item is ...