ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,557, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to WhatsApp LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Screenshot prevention" was invented by Xueting Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Aditya Kumar (San Jose, Calif.) and Masroor Naved (Aldie, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media for screenshot prevention are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive content through a first user interface of a social media platform; receive an indication that the content should be protected from being captured; update metadata associated with the content to convey that the content is protected; cause display of the content through a second...