ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,980, issued on March 17, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"On-demand camera sharing over a network" was invented by Brian Anthony Smith (Brentwood, N.Y.) and Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, 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 at least one program, method, and user interface to facilitate a camera sharing session between two or more users. A request for an image depicting an image target is received from a first device associated with a first user. A notification of the request is transmitted to a second device asso...