ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,659, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"User presence status indicators generation and management in multilevel conversations" was invented by Laurent Desserrey (Los Angeles), Dylan Shane Eirinberg (Venice, Calif.) and Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system include providing for a group conversation between plural users including a first user and a second user; determining that the second user is active within one of the main conversation view or the experience page; upon determining that the second user is active in the main conversation view, providing ...