US Patent Issued to Snap on April 21 for "Shortcut to sharing collections of content items" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,118, issued on April 21, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Shortcut to sharing collections of content items" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Daniel Vincent Grippi (New York), David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles) and Xingnan Xia (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for providing shortcuts to sharing private collections of content items. The methods and systems receive, by a device associated with a first user, a request to share a first content item with one or more recipients and in response, presenting a plurality of shortcuts, each of the plurality of shortc...