US Patent Issued to Snap on Feb. 24 for "Suggesting relevant groups and individuals in message replies" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,007, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Suggesting relevant groups and individuals in message replies" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Michael James Connolly (Mill Valley, Calif.), Daniel Vincent Grippi (New York) and David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for suggesting relevant groups and recipients when replying to messages in a messaging application. In response to a first received message, the system identifies groups with membership comprising the sender and receiver. Interface elements representing these mutual groups are display...