US Patent Issued to Apple on July 7 for "Technologies for conference calls with privacy control" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,901, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Technologies for conference calls with privacy control" was invented by Vivek G. Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Farha Hameed (San Diego), Sanjay K. Verma (San Jose, Calif.) and Santosh Koraddi (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for creating an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) conference call with privacy controls."

The patent was filed on May 10, 2024, under Application No. 18/661,442.

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