US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for generating group effects in real-time communication sessions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,805, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating group effects in real-time communication sessions" was invented by Chinmayee Rathi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Amar Guntamadugu (Union City, Calif.), Yuyan Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Pablo Gomez Basanta (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include systems for generating group effects within real-time communication sessions. For example, the disclosed systems and methods can generate participant masks indicating areas of interest within video streams of a real-...