ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,302, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to THEATRO LABS INC. (Richardson, Texas).

"Integrating verbal collaboration platforms with data collection and user context" was invented by Guy R. VanBuskirk (Greenville, S.C.), Christopher N. Todd (Dallas), Ravi Shankar Kumar (Richardson, Texas), Amy Sue Bakos (Richardson, Texas) and Kathryn Payne Torrence Shae (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of observation platform collaboration integration, an automation software component is sent from a collaboration application for resident installation at an external collaboration application which is external to an environment of the obser...