ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,397, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Multi-user camera switch icon during video call" was invented by Natalie Brooks Powell (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Hyman David Chantz (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Tami Rose Bryan (Howard, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method shares data feeds among devices. The method includes identifying a plurality of devices including a first device, where each device of the plurality of devices is within a vicinity of the first device. The method also includes forming an ad hoc network that includes ea...