ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,421, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Parallel online meetings" was invented by Richard Harrington (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual meeting system is discussed herein. An online meeting application can provide a parallel virtual meeting between or among two or more participants of a main virtual meeting. The parallel virtual meeting permits two or more participants of the main virtual meeting to have a "smaller-sized" meeting in parallel with the main virtual speaker or presentation while still participating in the main virtual meeting. Therefore, the participants of th...