ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,719, issued on May 12, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"System and method for effective communication in online collaboration" was invented by Snehal Desai (Richardson, Texas), Stacy Callaway Huggar (San Antonio), Noe Alberto Martinez (San Antonio) and Kristina Suniga-Cabrera (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing an online meeting includes one or more hardware processors. The system also includes a non-transitory memory, the non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or hardware processors, causes the one or more hardware processors...