US Patent Issued to Avatour Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Multiuser teleconferencing with spotlight feature" (American, Ukrainian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,160, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Avatour Technologies Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Multiuser teleconferencing with spotlight feature" was invented by Devon Copley (San Francisco), Prasad Balasubramanian (Fremont, Calif.), Joseph A. Kane (Saint Paul, Minn.), Aparna Ramakrishnan (New York), Justin Thomas Zimmer (Gilbert, Ariz.), Pavlo Mischenko (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Dino Fezjagic (Pforzheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods, systems, devices, and processor readable storage devices for use during a teleconference among a plurality of users that each uses a respective device, of a plurality of devices, to ...