US Patent Issued to SNAP on July 15 for "Mixing participant audio from multiple rooms within a virtual conferencing system" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,954, issued on July 15, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Mixing participant audio from multiple rooms 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 mixing participant audio from multiple rooms within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide, in association with designing a first room for virtual conferencing, display of a user interface for mixing partici...