US Patent Issued to Snap on May 13 for "Virtual participant interaction for hybrid event" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,037, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Virtual participant interaction for hybrid event" 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 virtual participant interaction for a hybrid event. The program and method provide an interface for designing a hybrid event between in-person and virtual participants, the interface for setting first properties of a physical space device present in a physical spa...