US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Aug. 25 for "Enhanced notifications for improving inclusiveness in online meetings" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,710, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Enhanced notifications for improving inclusiveness in online meetings" was invented by Navot Oren (Herzelia, Israel) and Shoham Dekel (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed techniques provide dynamically controlled notifications that improve inclusiveness in online meetings. The dynamically controlled notifications can be audio or visual indicators that supplement a first notification. A user input causes the display of the first notification, an image of a "virtual hand raise." The input also invokes a timer for meas...