US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 15 for "Collaborative video messaging component" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,792, issued on April 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Collaborative video messaging component" was invented by Constance Gervais (Seattle), Bryan Joseph Heredia (Vancouver, Canada), Flavio Ander Andrade (Quincy, Mass.), Xiaoyang Wu (Alpharetta, Ga.), Kejia Xu (Burnaby, Canada), Ji-Yeon Kim (Vancouver, Canada), Alyssa Ann Dunn (Vancouver, Canada), Cindy Shao-Yu Hsu Tan (Coquitlam, Canada), Edward Zhen Yu Chen (Richmond, Canada) and Shannon Yen Yun Lee (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video messaging systems and methods utilize a video messaging component based on a video messagi...