ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,732, issued on June 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Media content items with haptic feedback augmentations" was invented by Alexander P. Powell (Oakland, Calif.) and Mark Thomas (Playa Vista, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for generating haptic feedback responses using haptic augmentations starts with processor receiving a media content item from a first client device and receiving from the first client device a selection of a haptic overlay associated with a haptic feedback response to be applied to the media content item. The processor generates a modified media content item by overlaying the hapt...