US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 3 for "Interactive map for providing images for background replacement in a virtual meeting" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,870, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Interactive map for providing images for background replacement in a virtual meeting" was invented by Stefan Lindmark (Osthammar, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for leveraging an interactive map for providing images for background replacement in a virtual meeting are provided. A user interface (UI) displaying a map is provided for presentation on a first client device associated with a first participant of a virtual meeting. in response to user input pertaining to a location on the map, an image associated with the location on the ma...