US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on June 3 for "Video conference apparatus, video conference method and computer program using a spatial virtual reality environment" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,739, issued on June 3, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Video conference apparatus, video conference method and computer program using a spatial virtual reality environment" was invented by Siegfried FoBel (Erlangen, Germany) and Angela Raguse-FoBel (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Video conference apparatus is configured to reproduce videos of a plurality of video conference participants on a plurality of video reproduction areas or video reproduction spaces that are arranged in a spatial virtual reality environment. The video conference apparatus is co...