ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,628, issued on July 1, was assigned to Grypp Corp Ltd. (Northampton, Great Britain).

"Viewpoint synchronization" was invented by Pete Jones (Northampton, Great Britain), Adam Lancey (Northampton, Great Britain) and Jemal Patel (Northampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second digital content renderer receives a communication indicating properties of a first content viewing area of a first digital content renderer and first state data of an object rendered in the first area, the data including a configuration of the object. The second renderer renders a second content viewing area having a portion that contains an int...