ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,538, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Independently configurable annotation layers" was invented by Shane Paul Springer (Oregon City, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for providing multi-point video presentations with live annotations within a communication platform. First, the system receives video feeds depicting imagery of a number of users. The system then determines a boundary about each user in the video feeds, with the boundaries each having an interior portion and...