US Patent Issued to Snap on March 17 for "Configuring 360-degree video within a virtual conferencing system" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,783, issued on March 17, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Configuring 360-degree video within a virtual conferencing system" was invented by Andrew Cheng-min Lin (Long Island City, N.Y.) and Walton Lin (Chatham, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for configuring 360-degree video within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide, in association with designing a room for virtual conferencing, a first interface for configuring at least one participant video element which is ...