US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Sept. 23 for "Client devices, server, and methods" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,543, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Client devices, server, and methods" was invented by Jonathan James Stone (Berkshire, Great Britain) and Nicolas Pierre Rose (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of receiving a live videoconference stream from a server is provided. The live videoconference stream comprises a plurality of participants each receiving the live videoconference stream using a client device. The method comprises receiving, by a client device of a first participant of the plurality of participants via the server, a foreground image from the client devices of ...