ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,564, issued on June 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Presenting participant reactions within a virtual working environment" was invented by Brandon Francis (New York), 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 participant reactions within a virtual working environment. The program and method provide a configuration interface for configuring a virtual working environment for plural participants, the configuration...