US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 7 for "Conference operator" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,904, issued on July 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Conference operator" was invented by Paul Llamas Virgen (Guadalajara, Mexico), Peeyush Jaiswal (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Priyansh Jaiswal (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a structure, and a computer system for a conference operator. The exemplary embodiments may include extracting features from a conference of participants and determining whether a statement made by a first participant is directed to a second participant based on the features. The exemplary embodiments may further include, based on determining that the ...