ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,953, issued on May 26, was assigned to 8x8 Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Apparatuses and methods involving data-communications room predictions" was invented by Justin Driemeyer (Campbell, Calif.), Manu Mukerji (Campbell, Calif.), Vijai Gandikota (Campbell, Calif.), Soumyadeb Mitra (Campbell, Calif.) and Solomon Fung (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods concerning providing data-communications room recommendations are disclosed. As an example, one apparatus includes a data-communications server. The data-communications server is configured to provide user-data-communications sessions. The server is also...