US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on April 29 for "Artificial intelligence generated dynamic virtual backgrounds" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,558, issued on April 29, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Artificial intelligence generated dynamic virtual backgrounds" was invented by Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request for a virtual background is received from an endpoint of a participant who is participating in an online meeting. The request includes a description of the virtual background. One or more virtual backgrounds are generated using an image generator based on a command that includes the description of the virtual background. The one or more virtual backgrounds are...