ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,221, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Handling confidential meetings in a conference room" was invented by Gokul Thiruchengode Vajravel (Bangalore, India) and Abu Shaher Sanaullah (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for handling confidential meetings in a conference room are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, a video bar may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the video bar to: determine that confidential materials are be...