ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,943, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Audience filtering system" was invented by Mehrdad Jahangiri (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and Ye Tao (Culver, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to improvements to systems and methods for filtering a data set. An audience filtering system is configured to perform operations that include accessing a database that comprises user profile data associated with a plurality of users, generating a bit-set based on the user profile data from the database, wherein the bit-set comprises an array of binary values, receiving a user input e.g., vi...