US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on May 13 for "Systems and methods for transitioning between asynchronous and synchronous interactions" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,036, issued on May 13, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for transitioning between asynchronous and synchronous interactions" was invented by Fei Peng (Seattle), Derick Joseph Zhang (Lake Elsinore, Calif.), Hongning Yuan (Seattle), Zhicheng Wan (Newark, Calif.) and Onder Ozbek (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for transitioning between asynchronous and synchronous interactions may include (i) detecting that a user is initiating a session within a digital media room via a computing device, (ii) enabling the user to interact with at least one digital...