ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,659, issued on April 15, was assigned to SPLUNK INC. (San Francisco).

"Networked remote collaboration system" was invented by Devin Bhushan (San Jose, Calif.), Seunghee Han (San Jose, Calif.), Caelin Thomas Jackson-King (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jamie Kuppel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sammy Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Derek Sykes (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Stanislav Yazhenskikh (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jim Jiaming Zhu (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations of the present application set forth a method comprising generating, based on first sensor data captured by a depth sensor on a mobile device, three-dimensio...