ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,186, issued on March 3, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for video-based collaboration interface" was invented by Satya Pati (Bangalore, India), Suresh Halarneker (Bangalore, India), Trisha Chatterjee (Bangalore, India), Ragesh Viruthissery (Bangalore, India) and Santosh Holla K S (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a video-based collaboration assistance service is provided. The service may include identifying a user profile for a user of a videoconferencing application to access a v...