US Patent Issued to Snap on June 30 for "Content collection indicators within a group messaging system" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,921, issued on June 30, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Content collection indicators within a group messaging system" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Michael James Connolly (Mill Valley, Calif.), Daniel Vincent Grippi (New York), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method, includes identifying members of a group in a messaging application, detecting an active sharing of content collection from a member of the group, and generating a visual indicator corresponding to the group in a user interface of t...