ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,848, issued on March 17, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Selectively modifying a GUI" was invented by Kaveh Anvaripour (Culver City, Calif.), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Ranidu Lankage (Belmont, Calif.) and Jane Meng (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for navigating images and AR experiences. The system and method present, by a messaging application, in a scrollable region on top of a live video feed being displayed in a GUI comprising a viewfinder, a first plurality of options associated with previously captured content ...