US Patent Issued to Snap on April 29 for "Presenting overview of participant reactions within a virtual conferencing system" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,176, issued on April 29, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Presenting overview of participant reactions within a virtual conferencing system" was invented by Andrew Cheng-min Lin (Long Island City, N.Y.) and Walton Lin (Chatham, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting an overview of participant reactions to a virtual conference. The program and method provide for a virtual conference between plural participants; provide, for each of the plural participants, display of reaction button...