ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,831, issued on July 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Monitoring and maintaining signal quality for each participant of a group call" was invented by Dong Chen (Beijing), Ting Ting Zhan (Beijing), Ming Lei Zhang (Beijing), Yuan Jie Zhang (Ningbo, China) and Yin Xi Guo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: receiving a source audio signal from a speaker on a group call between the speaker and participants. Copies of resulting audio signals are also received from the participants. The copies of the resulting audio signals inclu...