ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,173, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Missed information assistant for online meeting" was invented by Guang Han Sui (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Su Liu (Austin, Texas) and Jun Su (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for mitigating missed information during an online meeting is provided. The embodiment may include recording, at a computing device of a speaker participant of the online meeting, utterances of the speaker as voice messages during the online meeting. The embodiment may i...