US Patent Issued to Snap on Aug. 11 for "Combining third-party content with user content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,945, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Combining third-party content with user content" was invented by Christie Marie Heikkinen (Santa Monica, Calif.), David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles) and Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A third-party user input content item is presented on a user device of a user. Third-party authorization for the third-party user input content item to be combined with other content items is determined. Responsive to determining the third-party authorization, a combination graphical element is automatically presented on the user device. The combinat...