ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,233, issued on March 18, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Remote assistance via video conferencing" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Wang Xuejin (Xiamen, China), Cai Zhiyi (Xiamen, China), Zhang Mingping (Xiamen, China) and Wang Yuliang (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects of remote assistance via video conferencing, a manager device establishes a connection to a video conferencing call and sends a device control request that requests control of a managed device also on the video conferencing call. The manager device displays a screen view of the managed device on a display ...