ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,312, issued on July 29, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Spatial chat" was invented by Oded Gal (Palo Alto, Calif.), Andrew Law (Los Gatos, Calif.), Sally Lu (Los Angeles), Ping Luo (Pleasanton, Calif.), Sharvari Nerurkar (Redmond, Wash.), Archil Vardidze (Austin, Texas) and Zheng Yuan (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems provide for a spatial chat view dashboard within a messaging platform. A system displays, at a client device, a dashboard user interface for a messaging platform, consisting of at least a dashboard virtual background and one or more spatial chat rooms. ...