US Patent Issued to Snap on May 26 for "Generating media content items for sharing to external applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,045, issued on May 26, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Generating media content items for sharing to external applications" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles) and Benedict Copping (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of generating modified media content items for sharing to external applications starts with a processor receiving a media content item from a client device. Processor causes a sharing interface to be displayed on the client device. Sharing interface includes selectable items associated with external applications. Processor receives from the client device a selection of a fir...