ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,344, issued on May 13, was assigned to BARCO N.V. (Kortrijk, Belgium).

"Synchronizing local room and remote sharing" was invented by Steven Lien (Taipei, Taiwan), Madhwan Misra (New Delhi) and Audi Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system and devices for data sharing by teleconferencing with local projection of the same shared data in a local meeting room are described. A method, a system and devices for synchronizing display of content in a local room and remote sharing of the same content as well are also described. A method, a system and devices for providing access to shared multimedia content wit...