ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,470, issued on June 2, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Managing privacy in a video communication session" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Krishnan Raghavan (Bangalore, India) and Hariprasad Shanbhogue Alampady (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device, computer program product, and method are provided that generate an image stream to be transmitted from one communication device to at least another communication device in a video communication session. A controller (i) identifies, within a first image stream, secondary content displayed within at least one surface i...