ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,206, issued on March 17, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Automatic article enrichment by social media trends" was invented by Eran Cohen (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Efrat Rotem (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for creating a presentation based on grouping of social media content. The method can aggregate first user uploaded media content items received from a social network servers in response to requests, extract terms from the aggregated user uploaded media content items, and associate at least some of the extracted terms with a trend. The method can send second requests to the soci...