US Patent Issued to SNAP on Nov. 3 for "Gesture-driven message content resizing" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,113, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Gesture-driven message content resizing" was invented by Dennis Jin (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Daniel Moreno (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface with a message composition area is presented at a user device. The message composition area includes message content presented in a base size. The user interface further includes a resizing graphical element presented at a base position within the user interface. A resizing gesture commences at the base position. While the resizing gesture is in progress, the resizing gesture is tracked and the message c...