US Patent Issued to Intel on May 5 for "Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to facilitate multi-participant conversation" (Michigan, California, Oregon, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,359, issued on May 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to facilitate multi-participant conversation" was invented by Chia-Hung S. Kuo (Folsom, Calif.), Stanley Baran (Chandler, Ariz.), Atsuo Kuwahara (Novi, Mich.) and David Browning (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate multi participant conversation. An example apparatus to control interruptions includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execu...