ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,268, issued on April 7, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Stage user replacement techniques for online video conferences" was invented by Tingting Wang (Hangzhou City, China) and Shancai Xu (Hangzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are stage user replacement techniques that can be performed to facilitate automatic stage user replacement for one or more stage users of an online video conference. In one example, a computer-implemented method is provided that may include providing, to a particular user interface of a particular participant, a management interface element that enables ...