US Patent Issued to Snap on June 23 for "Augmenting image content with sound" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,958, issued on June 23, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Augmenting image content with sound" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Jonathan Dale Brody (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Andrew Grosvenor Cooper (Los Angeles), Brandon Francis (New York), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and Ranidu Lankage (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a messaging application implemented on a client device, input that selects a sound option to add sound to one or more images; in respo...