ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,844, issued on July 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cloud-based application of visual effects to video" was invented by Stephane Herve Loic Hulaud (Stockholm), Peter Tore Fredrik Solenberg (Stockholm), Karl Mikael Nilsson (Nacka, Sweden) and Mans Erik Klasson Vestin (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server system receives, from a first client device, a video stream relating to a videoconferencing session and receives, from the first client device, visual effects information relating to one or more visual effects to be applied to the video stream. The server system applies, based on the received visu...