ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,623, issued on May 12, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Sending group message to tagged contacts" was invented by Michael James Connolly (Mill Valley, Calif.), Daniel Vincent Grippi (New York), Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a storage medium storing a program and method for sending a group message to tagged contacts. The program and method provide for determining that a first user tagged at least two second users in association with a media content item created by the firs...