US Patent Issued to Snap on April 29 for "Providing bot participants within a virtual conferencing system" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,961, issued on April 29, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Providing bot participants 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 providing bot participants for virtual conferencing. The program and method provide, in association with designing a virtual space, a first interface for configuring plural participant video elements, each being assignable to a respective participa...