ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,789, issued on June 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Real-time video enhancement" was invented by Anne Menini (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu (Mountain View, Calif.), Rahul Garg (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andeep Singh Toor (Fremont, Calif.), Xin Tong (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Weijuan Xi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for real-time video enhancement are provided herein. A current frame of a video stream generated by a client device of a plurality of client devices participating in the video conference is identified during a video conference. An enhanced previ...