ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,792, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Real-time video conference chat filtering using machine learning models" was invented by Amy Rose (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Andrew James Woodard (Buckinghamshire, Great Britain) and Benjemin Thomas Waine (Cheshunt, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, as a user is speaking or presenting content during an online video conference, the data stream may be processed to generate a textual representation (e.g., transcript) of the audio and/or information relating to the video. The textual representation and/or video related information may the...