US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 6 for "Virtual meeting scheduling and monitoring based on sustainability attributes" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,588, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Virtual meeting scheduling and monitoring based on sustainability attributes" was invented by Alan Gatzke (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Niall L. McDonnell (Galway, Ireland) and Jeff Wolfeld (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and processes for dynamically generating indications regarding the sustainability of one or more virtual meeting options is described herein. Virtual meetings can have participants join from all over the world and from very different computing devices which can each be powered by different powe...