US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 9 for "Characteristic-based video conference adjustments" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,185, issued on June 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Characteristic-based video conference adjustments" was invented by Konrad Lukasz Reszka (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Kevin Craig Redmon (Apex, N.C.) and Bradford Michael Ingersoll (Haw River, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a device may detect, from video data captured by one or more cameras, a plurality of participants in a video conference. The device may determine one or more physical characteristics of the plurality of participants. The device may identify one or more target participants from among ...