ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,596, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"User interfaces for managing live communication sessions" was invented by Jesse Chand (San Francisco), Kristi E. Bauerly (Los Altos, Calif.), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco) and Shih-Sang Chiu (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to managing live communication sessions. A computer system optionally displays an option to invite the respective user to join the ongoing communication session. A computer system optionally one or more options to modify an appearance of an ava...