ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,222, issued on June 30, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Generating a contextual search stream" was invented by Bobby Lo (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for retrieving first query result data associated with a first user account and rendering the first query result data into a first result item, generating a shareable search result stream comprising the first result item associated with the first user account, retrieving second query result data associated with a second user account and rendering the second query result data into a second result item, adding the second ...