ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,918, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Nextiva Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Mixing and transmitting multiplex audiovisual information" was invented by Tomas Gorny (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Jean-Baptiste Martinoli (St Anaclet de Lesard, Canada), Tracy Conrad (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Lukas Gorny (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for generating a teleconference space for two or more communication devices using a computer coupled with a database and comprising a processor and memory. The computer generates a teleconference space and transmits requests to join the teleconference space to the two ...