ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,869, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"System for generating composite media item" was invented by Manny Jerrold Adler (Malibu, Calif.), Jonathan Brody (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Glenne Christiaansen (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Kirk Ouimet (Orem, Utah), Kameron Sheffield (South Jordan, Utah), Haibo Zhao (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Zhuangtian Zhao (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems for enhancing a first media item through the addition of a supplemental second media item. A user may provi...