ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,590, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to provide remote telepresence communication" was invented by Ronald Azuma (San Jose, Calif.), Joshua Ratcliff (San Jose, Calif.) and Santiago Alfaro (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to provide remote telepresence communication. At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium comprises instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to identify features from a plurality of images, the plurality of images representing a first user and a second u...