ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,929, issued on July 28, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Custom media overlay system" was invented by Brent Michael Barkman (Los Angeles), Michael Cumberbatch (Culver City, Calif.), Zachary Lupei (Los Angeles), Ashley Michelle Wayne (Los Angeles) and Eric Wood (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request to generate a media overlay corresponding to a home of a first user, and for generating the media overlay corresponding to the home of the first user using media content received in the request. The systems and methods further provide for associating, with the ...