ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,126, issued on April 21, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Hybridization of voice notes and calling" was invented by Jonathan Brody (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Matthew Hanover (Los Angeles), Chamal Samaranayake (Venice, Calif.) and William Wu (Marina del Rey, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for receiving a user interaction with a user interface of a client device, determining a current communication mode and a desired communication mode, where the desired communication mode is determined based on the user interaction received by the sensor module. The system further sets the desired communica...