US Patent Issued to SNAP on Nov. 3 for "Data privacy preserving age gating service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,715, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Data privacy preserving age gating service" was invented by Virgil L. Archer (Los Angeles), Rushi Jash (Long Beach, Calif.) and Bernardo Perez (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is an online service having an integral age gating service. The age gating service is accessible to third-party applications via an application programming interface (API). Consistent with some embodiments, the API includes a method or function call that allows a third-party application developer to establish for a third-party application, age gating logic, for ...