ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,292, issued on June 9, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Method, system, and machine-readable storage medium for VR-based connected portal shopping" was invented by Itamar Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Amar Boghani (Los Angeles), Kateryna Chorna (Los Angeles), Maria Jose Garcia Sopo (London), Qi Pan (London) and Denys Poluyanov (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing programs and methods for performing operations comprising: receiving a request from a client device of a first user to engage in a shared...