US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Feb. 18 for "Parameters for overlay handling for immersive teleconferencing and telepresence for remote terminals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,815, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Parameters for overlay handling for immersive teleconferencing and telepresence for remote terminals" was invented by Rohit Abhishek (San Jose, Calif.) and Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program, and computer system for video conferencing is provided. Video data associated with an immersive teleconferencing session is received. A parameter associated with the video data is identified, whereby the parameter specifies overlay data associated with the immersive teleconferencing session. The video data is display...