US Patent Issued to Snap on June 16 for "Client device processing received emoji-first messages" (New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,370, issued on June 16, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Client device processing received emoji-first messages" was invented by Karl Bayer (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Prerna Chikersal (Pittsburgh), Shree K. Nayar (New York) and Brian Anthony Smith (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device processing received emoji messages using emoji-first messaging. Text messaging is automatically converted to emojis by an emoji-first application so that only emojis are communicated from one client device to another client device. Each client device has a library of emojis that are mapped to words, which libraries are custom...