US Patent Issued to Bluescape Buyer on July 15 for "Virtual workspace viewport following in collaboration systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,725, issued on July 15, was assigned to Bluescape Buyer LLC (Chicago).

"Virtual workspace viewport following in collaboration systems" was invented by Satish Santhakumar (Fremont, Calif.) and Demian Entrekin (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a server node to allow a first client node to follow a second client node in a collaboration session. The method includes sending at least a portion of a spatial event map to a first node wherein the spatial event map locates events in a virtual workspace. The method includes sending data to allow the first node to display, in a screen space of a...