ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,964, issued on March 11, was assigned to Impact Engine Inc. (San Diego).
"Multimedia communication system and method" was invented by Neil Greer (La Jolla, Calif.), Bennett Blank (La Jolla, Calif.) and Bryan Depew (La Jolla, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electroni...