ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,250, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated asset preparation for a virtual meeting" was invented by Mouad Atfi (Blainville, Canada), Greg Pollack (Lakewood Ranch, Fla.), Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas) and Jacob Ryan Jepperson (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method, system, and computer program product for automatically identifying and preparing assets needed for a virtual meeting using artificial intelligence. A processor may receive a set of communications associated with an upcoming virtual meeting. The processor may analyze, u...