US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 4 for "Screen sharing session privacy manager" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,803, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Screen sharing session privacy manager" was invented by Vasanth Raja Chittampally (Redmond, Wash.) and Utkarsh Patankar (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A screen sharing privacy manager performs method in response to initiating a screen sharing session on a computer network, in which the screen sharing session is of a first desktop environment of an operating system. A second desktop environment is generated with the operating system. The second desktop environment inaccessible to the screen sharing session. A selected item in ...