US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 4 for "Conferencing array for participants at a location" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,025, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Conferencing array for participants at a location" was invented by Thomas Jeffrey Solomon (Fordingbridge, Great Britain) and Yasmin Aumeeruddy (South Woodford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for managing a conference call on a first network. The network comprising a first location having a first client, and at least one second client at the first location, and each client comprising a speaker and a microphone. One of the first client and the at least one second client is designated as a primary client, and the other ...