US Patent Issued to Internationaol Business Machines on Aug. 4 for "Gesture-controlled private transmission in meetings" (North Carolina, Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,198, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Internationaol Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Gesture-controlled private transmission in meetings" was invented by Steven Lee Fisher-Stawinski (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Moitreyee Mukherjee-Roy (San Jose, Calif.), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott E. Schneider (Rolesville, N.C.).

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 gesture-controlled private messaging is provided. The embodiment may include establishing a virtual conference room and connections thereto by at least an initiating participant, a recipie...