US Patent Issued to RingCentral on July 7 for "Collaborative virtual spaces" (American, Australian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,945, issued on July 7, was assigned to RingCentral Inc. (Belmont, Calif.).

"Collaborative virtual spaces" was invented by Badri Rajasekar (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Gustavo Garcia (Madrid), Adam Ullman (Croydon Park, Australia) and Matthew Wilson (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for rendering a shared virtual meeting environment during a video meeting session. The shared virtual meeting environment comprises a shared virtual space which is accessible to the meeting participants and includes video streams for each of the respective meeting participants. The video ...