ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,083, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Camera format selection" was invented by Karthick Santhanam (Campbell, Calif.), Eric L. Chien (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher M. Garrido (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kyle W. Horn (Chicago), Ian J. Baird (San Jose, Calif.), Qian Sun (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and David L. Biderman (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives, at a local device, a requested camera format based on specifications of a display associated with a remote device. The remote device and the local device are devices participating in a video conference. The request...