ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,187, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"System and method for augmented views in an online meeting" was invented by Shingo Murata (Mineola, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server is provided for a remote meeting conducted between a plurality of clients connected via a network. The server includes one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed, configures the one or more processors, to store, in one or more memories, user id information of a client participating to the remote meeting and a video of the client, associated with each other; store, in one or more memories, a video ...