ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,646, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Video conference calls" was invented by Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi (Tampere, Finland), Antti Johannes Eronen (Tampere, Finland) and Miikka Tapani Vilermo (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method is disclosed. An example embodiment of the method may comprise receiving audio and video data from a plurality of user devices as part of a conference call, the video data representing a user of the respective user device and identifying one or more of the user devices as having a spatial audio capture capability. Another operation may...