US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 9 for "Providing side conversations within a virtual conferencing system" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,687, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Providing side conversations 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 providing side conversations within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide, in association with a virtual conference among plural participants, a first audio channel for sharing among the plural participants; provide, for ...