ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,252, issued on July 7, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for screen sharing" was invented by Shruti Shruti (Redwood City, Calif.), Julie Haynes (Seattle) and Samuel Kang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media, methods, and systems are provided for screen sharing. A user may initiate a video recording. A recording preview interface may be displayed for the user to preview the video recording before beginning the recording. The recording preview interface may comprise a live video preview of the user and of a window or application being shared. When the user selects a window or applicatio...