ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,957, issued on April 14, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Conference calls" was invented by Mikko Tapio Tammi (Tampere, Finland), Riitta Elina Vaananen (Espoo, Finland), Toni Makinen (Tampere, Finland) and Roope Olavi Jarvinen (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to conference calls. In a method, there may be provided audio data and associated classification data from a plurality of user devices as part of a conference call, the plurality of user devices including at least a first user device and a second user device. The classification data may be indicative of one of a...