ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,019, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to vTapestry Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automated generation of meeting tapestries" was invented by Eileen Marie Clegg (Bodega Bay, Calif.), Benjamin Mandeberg (Portland, Ore.) and Ramana Rao (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology teaches a method for automatically generating a graphical summary of a meeting that provides a reflection of a group's conversation with textual and graphical elements in a tapestry. The method comprises a combination of transcript analysis using natural language processing or other machine learning models and automatic selection of graphic sy...