US Patent Issued to Google on May 5 for "Methods and systems for verbal polling during a conference call discussion" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,358, issued on May 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for verbal polling during a conference call discussion" was invented by Emily Burd (New York) and Akshat Sharma (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more content streams are obtained from a client device associated with a participant during a conference call. The one or more content streams indicate verbal phrases provided by the participant during the conference call. At least a portion of the one or more content streams are fed as input to a machine learning model. A polling question for polling other participants of the ...