US Patent Issued to Upwork on Feb. 10 for "Determining engagement using sensor data" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,330, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Upwork Inc. (West Valley City, Utah).

"Determining engagement using sensor data" was invented by Yihui He (Pittsburgh), Megan Hardy (Oakland, Calif.), Bryan Innes (San Francisco), Julian Green (San Francisco) and Andrew Rabinovich (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for predicting engagement. One of the methods is a method of determining an engagement score for each of a plurality of participants in a video conference call, and includes, for each of the plurality of participants: receiving ...