ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,515, issued on April 7, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"First device, communication server, second device and methods in a communications network" was invented by Stefan Wanstedt (Lulea, Sweden), Peter Okvist (Lulea, Sweden), Tommy Arngren (Sodra Sunderbyn, Sweden) and Hans Hannu (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a first device for handling a sharing of a presentation in an ongoing real-time communication session between the first device and a second device in a communications network is provided. The presentation being displayed in a first screen of the first dev...