US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 25 for "Certifying room privacy levels and user steering based on privacy requirements" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,835, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Certifying room privacy levels and user steering based on privacy requirements" was invented by Derek Engi (Pleasant Ridge, Mich.), Matthew David Barber (London), Matthew Robert Engle (Plano, Texas) and Joseph Michael Clarke (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for assessing workspaces for privacy and allocating users to workspaces. Audio is obtained from one or more rooms of a building, wherein the audio is obtained via one or more microphones that are positioned outside of eac...