ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,307, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Retractable displays for electronic meetings" was invented by Derek Kyle Joseph Kanas (Spring, Texas), Christopher Steven (Spring, Texas), Andre Da Fonte Lopes da Silva (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Guoxing Yang (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for conducting electronic meetings using retractable displays, includes receiving by a conference hub including a retractable display, an electronic meeting agenda for an electronic meeting. The method includes identifying a position of a retractable display by extrapolating contextua...