ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,080, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Dynamic virtual backgrounds" was invented by Shane Paul Springer (Oregon City, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual-background (VBG) rule for setting a first target VBG of a first conference participant of at least two conference participants of a video conference is identified. The at least two conference participants include the first conference participant and a second conference participant. The VBG rule identifies a VBG source. The first target VBG for the first conference participant set using the VBG rule is different from a second t...