US Patent Issued to Snap on May 27 for "Automatically navigating between rooms within a virtual conferencing system" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,689, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Automatically navigating between rooms within a virtual conferencing system" was invented by Maxwell Gale (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 providing automatically navigating between rooms within a virtual space for virtual conferencing. The program and method provide for virtual conferencing between plural participants within a first room of plural ...