US Patent Issued to Snap on Aug. 4 for "Obscuring elements based on user input" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,802, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Obscuring elements based on user input" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Alex Edelsburg (Seattle), Daniel Moreno (Los Angeles), David Paliwoda (London) and Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for hiding conversation elements. The system accesses a conversation interface of a messaging application on a web browser and presents the conversation interface in a window associated with the web browser. The conversation interface comprising a plurality of conversation element...