ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,234, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sococo Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Visual communications" was invented by Eric Cozzi (Hayward, Calif.), David Van Wie (Eugene, Ore.), Paul J. Brody (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Matthew Leacock (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A web browser interface for visualizing realtime network communications in spatial communication environments allows communicants to interact with other communicants in an immersive spatial communication environment without having to install any specialized communication software and without requiring special proxies or firewall additions or exceptions."
The patent...