US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on April 29 for "Parallel video call and artificial reality spaces" (British, Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,561, issued on April 29, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Parallel video call and artificial reality spaces" was invented by Michael James Lebeau (Amsterdam), Bjorn Wanbo (London), Fabio Resende (San Francisco), Mark Rabkin (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Vesa Petteri Rantanen (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a VC/XR connection system that can establish and administer an XR space for a video call. The VC/XR connection system allows users to easily transition from a typical video call experience to the XR space, simply by putting on her artificial re...