US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 21 for "Equitable presence of communication session attendees" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,020, issued on April 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Equitable presence of communication session attendees" was invented by Christopher M. Sano (Seattle) and Emily Rachel Lederman (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein provide equitable presence of video conference attendees. A system gives attribution to a primary attendee in response to the detection of active speaking activities of users who are delegated as assistants for the primary attendee. Attribution can include at least one of (1) highlighting a video of the primary attendee, (2) positioning...