US Patent Issued to Snap on Dec. 23 for "Providing post-capture media overlays for post-capture processing in a messaging system" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,699, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Providing post-capture media overlays for post-capture processing in a messaging system" was invented by Jean Luo (Seattle), Oleksandr Grytsiuk (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles) and Ivan Golub (Playa Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives metadata corresponding to a respective media overlay, the metadata including information indicating that the respective media overlay is configured to be applied as an image processing operation during post-processing of image data during a post-capture st...