ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,999, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detailed videoconference viewpoint generation" was invented by Justin Donald Davidson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A videoconference system is described that generates a video for a room including multiple videoconference participants and outputs the video as part of the videoconference. The videoconference system is configured to generate the video as including a detailed view of one of the multiple videoconference participants located in the room. To do so, the videoconference system detects user devices located in the room capable of capturi...