US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 14 for "Computer vision driven actions based on user availability during video conferences" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,794, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Computer vision driven actions based on user availability during video conferences" was invented by Keith Griffin (County Galway, Ireland), William Edward Reed (Tiburon, Calif.) and Dario Cazzani (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising: analyzing, by a process, real-time video of a user participating on a video conference; determining, by the process and based on analyzing, a level of engagement of the user to the video conference; detecting, by the process, that the level of engagement of the user...