ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,901, issued on July 1, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Outputting information associated with an interacted object depicted within a video stream" was invented by Graeme Lambourne Geddes (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Brendan James Ittelson (San Jose, Calif.) and Shawn Michael Rolin (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interactions with objects depicted within video streams displayed during a video conference are detected to cause information associated with the interacted objects to be presented. During a video conference, multiple video layers of a video stream obtained from a first participant devi...