ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,945, issued on July 14, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Joining end-to-end encrypted online conferences using cached user credentials" was invented by Brett Louise Bralley (Los Angeles) and Richard Lee Barnes (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are techniques to facilitate joining an End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) online conference by a conference client using cached credentials. In one example, a method may include storing, by a conference client of a first user, a cached list of user credentials for one or more other users for previous online conferences in which the first user has...