ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,276, issued on June 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Transforming image including non-directional object and directional object" was invented by Jiayang Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Daniel Edmond Fish (Palo Alto, Calif.), Eric Baczuk (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Lynn Tsai (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of facilitating a virtual conference includes determining that a first object is non-directional, the first object being presented within an original image on a first display within the virtual conference; based on determining that the first object is non-directional, reversing an appearance and a loc...