ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,785, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Avaya Management LP (Morristown, N.J.).

"Automated session recording for absent participants" was invented by Aonkar Balkrushna Takalikar (Pune, India) and Sudhir Shelke (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables recording of user communications during a communication session on behalf of a user who is unable to attend. In a particular embodiment, a method includes identifying a meeting at a meeting time when a user is unable to attend. In an automated recording system, the method includes joining a communication session for the meeting as an endpoint at...