ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,179, issued on March 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Personalized videos featuring multiple persons" was invented by Victor Shaburov (Ocean Village, Gibraltar), Alexander Mashrabov (Los Angeles), Grigoriy Tkachenko (London) and Ivan Semenov (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for providing personalized videos featuring multiple persons. An example method includes providing an option enabling a user to select a video that includes at least one frame having a target face and a further target face, receiving an image of a source face associated with the user and a further image o...