ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,061, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for enhanced conferencing" was invented by Maria Battle-Miller (Philadelphia), Christopher Day (Philadelphia) and Rima Shah (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus are described herein for enhanced conferencing. A computing device monitor user participation. One or more conference features may be activated or deactivated based on speech patterns of conference participants."

The patent was filed on April 3, 2023, under Application No. 18/194,924.

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