ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,679, issued on May 20, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Virtual background sharing" was invented by Shane Paul Springer (Manchester, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A background-setting request for a target user device of a target conference participant is received. The background-setting request identifies a source conference participant. A source user device of the source conference participant is configured to use a virtual background (VBG) image. A replacement VBG is obtained based on the background-setting request and the VBG image of the source user device. The replacement VBG is used to set a ...