US Patent Issued to Katmai Tech on April 14 for "Providing awareness of who can hear audio in a virtual conference, and applications thereof" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,971, issued on April 14, was assigned to Katmai Tech Inc. (New York).

"Providing awareness of who can hear audio in a virtual conference, and applications thereof" was invented by Gerard Cornelis Krol (Leiden, Netherlands) and Erik Stuart Braund (Saugerties, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method, system, device, and computer program product for providing awareness of who are able to hear audio in a virtual conference. For each of the users in the virtual conference, a device of the speaking user or a server determines whether a respective user is able to hear the speaking user based on...