US Patent Issued on March 4 for "Interpersonal networking in virtual space pre-meeting waiting rooms and post-meeting sessions for participants of a videoconferencing session" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,655, issued on March 4.

"Interpersonal networking in virtual space pre-meeting waiting rooms and post-meeting sessions for participants of a videoconferencing session" was invented by Benjamin Slotznick (Mt. Gretna, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated method and computer program product allows meeting participants of a host-scheduled videoconferencing session to interact with each other via an online meeting user interface of a videoconferencing system using their respective participant computers prior to initiation of the host-scheduled videoconferencing session. The meeting participants request to join the host-schedule...