ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,468, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods to generate an enriched meeting playback timeline" was invented by Yoram Zahavi (Zichron Yaacov, Israel), Michael Shterenberg (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Adi L. Miller (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed for programmatically determining an event of interest that is specific to a user, and generating, based on user-meeting data, an enriched playback timeline that includes the event of interest on a graphical user interface (GUI). To determine the event of interest, this disclosure p...