ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,627, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Freeze frame video presentation for select participants during a video communication session" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Jeffrey T Snow (Barrington, Ill.), Olivier D Meirhaeghe (Lincolnshire, Ill.) and Bill Ryan (Libertyville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device, a method, and a computer program product provides freeze frame videos in place of a live video feed or a low-quality video feed to a video communication session. The electronic device hosts the video communication session between a first participant de...