ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,006, issued on March 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Instant video communication connections" was invented by Xiaosong Zhou (Campbell, Calif.), Hsi-Jung Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Chris Y. Chung (Sunnyvale, Calif.), James Normile (Los Altos, Calif.), Joe S. Abuan (San Jose, Calif.), Hyeonkuk Jeong (Saratoga, Calif.), Yan Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Gobind Johar (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas Christopher Jansen (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing devices may implement instant video communication connections for video communications. Connection information for mobile computing devices may be maintained...