ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,263, issued on June 3, was assigned to Tobii AB (Danderyd, Sweden).

"Gaze repositioning during a video conference" was invented by Razvan Condorovici (Bucharest, Romania) and Andra Stan (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method at a first participant's client conferencing system in a videoconference comprises receiving, from a second client conferencing system, at least one first video frame of a first video signal including an image of the second participant looking at a third participant, and first metadata associated with the first video frame and including an identity of the third participant. The image of the se...