US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 25 for "Split applications in a multi-user communication session" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,424, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Split applications in a multi-user communication session" was invented by Connor A. Smith (San Mateo, Calif.) and Nicholas W. Henderson (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Split applications and virtual objects in a multi-user communication session may include presenting, for a first device, a first environmental representation of the multi-user communication session, wherein the first device and the second device are active in the multi-user communication session, and wherein the first environmental representation and a second environmental repre...