US Patent Issued to Snap on Jan. 20 for "Location-based social media search mechanism with dynamically variable search period" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,408, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Location-based social media search mechanism with dynamically variable search period" was invented by Daniel Amitay (New York City, N.Y.), Jonathan Brody (Venice, Calif.), Timothy Jordan Garcia (Venice, Calif.), Leonid Gorkin (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Andrew Lin (Long Island City, N.Y.), Walton Lin (New York) and Evan Spiegel (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A social media platform provides a map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for accessing social media content submitted for public accessibility via the social media platform supported by the map-b...