US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 2 for "Customization of a user interface displaying a rendering of multiple participants of a hybrid communication session" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,858, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Customization of a user interface displaying a rendering of multiple participants of a hybrid communication session" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.) and Mahendra D. Sekaran (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for customizing user interfaces displaying an image of multiple participants of a communication session are disclosed. A system allows a user to make one or more selections of attendees from a video stream that includes multiple attendees, such as video captured by a conference room camera. In respo...