US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 30 for "Video conference appearance validation and remediation" (Texas, New York, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,567, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Video conference appearance validation and remediation" was invented by Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas), Melanie Dauber (Oceanside, N.Y.), Jacob Ryan Jepperson (St. Paul, Minn.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Spencer Thomas Reynolds (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for preventing anomalous appearance characteristics of a user during a video conference. The approach receives a user's video feed from a video conference comprising the user's video feed. The approach analyzes the user's video feed bas...