ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,461, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BroadPath Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Method for collecting and sharing live video feeds of employees within a distributed workforce" was invented by Jerry Daron Robertson (Tucson, Ariz.), Donald Gerard Hubman (Tucson, Ariz.), Kristen Olivia Dell (Tucson, Ariz.) and Robert Yadao Imperio (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a first method for collecting and sharing substantially real-time video feeds of employees within a distributed workforce includes: distributing a first subset of employee video feeds to a first instance of an employee portal; distributing a second subse...