ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,627, issued on May 12, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Message composition interface" was invented by Jeremy Voss (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A message composition system to generate and distribute a plurality of messages to individual recipients based on a single message request, wherein each message among the plurality of messages is addressed and sent to a distinct recipient. According to certain embodiments, the message composition system is configured to perform operations that include, receiving a request to generate a message at a client device, causing display of a composition interface in re...