US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 20 for "Meeting visualizer" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,734, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Meeting visualizer" was invented by Candice Allison Lam (Vancouver, Canada), Adam Michael Gleisner (Seattle), Francois Rouaix (Issaquah, Wash.), Sarah Ragab Ismail Saleh (Vancouver, Canada), Erez Kikin-Gil (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ian William Mikutel (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements techniques for automatically generating visualizations of content for meetings on an online communications platform. The visualizations are interactive and encourage participant engagement. The system automatically ...