US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 29 for "Dynamically selected bridge configurations for overlapping on-line meetings" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,410, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamically selected bridge configurations for overlapping on-line meetings" 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 meeting system for selectively using identical or different bridge configurations depending on whether meeting invites are directed to deliberate overlapping meetings. In some configurations, identical bridge configurations are used across the individu...