US Patent Issued to Snap on Oct. 20 for "Snapshot messages for indicating user state" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,924, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Snapshot messages for indicating user state" was invented by Hanseul Jun (Stanford, Calif.), Sven Kratz (Mercer Island, Wash.), Joanne Leong (Markham, Canada), Xingyu Liu (Los Angeles), Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Seattle), Brian Anthony Smith (New York), Yu Jiang Tham (Seattle) and Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for sending a snapshot message using an electronic eyewear device by a first user capturing an image, identifying a physical marker in the captured image, and determining that the physi...