US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 15 for "Enhanced automation of conflict reconciliation for overlapping meetings with the same room" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,730, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Enhanced automation of conflict reconciliation for overlapping meetings with the same room" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.), Gareth Lyndon Eadred Bridges (Duvall, Wash.) and Shaun Paul Dunning (San Clemente, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed techniques are directed to a system that manages use scenarios implementing and managing deliberate overlapping meetings conference calls. For example, an executive may organize hybrid meetings by scheduling an all-day meeting, e.g., 9 AM to 5 PM, in a conference ro...