ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,779, issued on June 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).
"Online conference apparatus and online conference method" was invented by Yayoi Shibata (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online conference apparatus includes: a memory that stores management information for managing availability of sharing for an image; and a processor configured to: process a designation image designated as a sharing target by a participant of an online conference; and apply a sharing restriction to the designation image based on the management information."
The patent was filed on Jan. 19, 2022, under Application...