US Patent Issued to Tawlk on Feb. 24 for "Social networking-based teleconferencing system and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,146, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Tawlk Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Social networking-based teleconferencing system and method" was invented by Thomas Scriven (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Anthony Fischler (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for creating and posting voice messages via a social networking service. A social networking service includes a website for receiving a voice message, post the voice message to the social networking service by storing the voice message as an audio file to a server, and transmit the post to a mobile device each associated with a follower of the social netw...