ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,440, issued on March 11, was assigned to DTEN Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dual conferencing system" was invented by Wei Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Jin Guo (San Jose, Calif.), Sally Tung (San Jose, Calif.) and Siqu Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An immersive teleconferencing system includes three-dimensional sides positioned about a vertical axis forming a line of reflection of the immersive teleconferencing system. Tree-dimensional sides terminating at ends form an enclosure that houses a camera housed at a substantially central position. A first loudspeaker is disposed above the camera about the vertical axis and a...