ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,712, issued on March 24, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Video sound control" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Jacob Catalano (Burlington, Canada), Imani Ritchards (Los Angeles), Ian Anthony Wehrman (Venice, Calif.) and Nikhil Halkude (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for presenting videos. The systems and methods access a video playback graphical user interface (GUI) that automatically plays back a plurality of videos in sequence. The systems and methods determine, by the one or more processors, a current mute state of the video playback GUI, a disa...