US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on May 5 for "Navigation of digital content during collaborative consumption" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,355, issued on May 5, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Navigation of digital content during collaborative consumption" was invented by Yifei Ding (Danville, Calif.) and Derick Joseph Zhang (Lake Elsinore, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to perform operations comprising providing, by a computing system, a currently playing content item in an interface presented through a screen to a group for collaborative online consumption; receiving, by the computing system, a command in a selected direction from a user in the group to select a...