US Patent Issued to Snap on July 7 for "Radial gesture navigation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,168, issued on July 7, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Radial gesture navigation" was invented by Ty Blachly (Los Angeles), Nathan Boyd (Los Angeles), Donald Giovannini (Venice, Calif.), Krish Jayaram (Santa Monica, Calif.), Evan Spiegel (Los Angeles) and William Wu (Marina del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for radial gesture navigation are provided. In example embodiments, user input data is received from a user device. The user input data indicates a continuous physical user interaction associated with a display screen of the user device. An initial point and a current point are de...