ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,542, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Yum Connect LLC (Louisville, Ky.).

"Collaborative user interface and systems and methods for providing same" was invented by Joseph R. Park (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for using collaborative objects across a plurality of networked devices includes launching, at a first electronic device, a first instance of a collaborative user interface (UI), wherein the first instance of the collaborative UI is presented at a display of the first electronic device in conjunction with a video conferencing application, sending local constraint information of the first ele...