ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,937, issued on June 23, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and system for improved control of presentation and experiences in video conference" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for altering video feeds of a first device in a video conference according to a request of a second device in the video conference. The present disclosure identifies a first video captured by a first device for a video conference involving the first device and a second device, receives a user request for modification of video transmitted to a second de...