ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,155, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Touchcast Inc. (New York).

"System and method for interactive video conferencing" was invented by Edo Segal (Even Yehuda, Israel) and Yehor Sydorenko (Zaporozhye, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for facilitating, managing, and providing on-line events and meetings. The present disclosure provides systems and methods for creation of content, live video event manages content and information to be provided during online events and meetings, as well as for generating and managing archives thereof. The present disclosure provides a set of tools for creating a virtual envir...