ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,134, issued on May 6.

"Voice assisted remote screen sharing" was invented by Hao Wu (Nanjing, China), Taodong Lu (Nanjing, China) and Yu Xin (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a method includes: receiving, by a client device, speech of a user during a screen sharing session; transcribing, by the client device, the speech into text; analyzing, by the client device, the text to identify one or more UI elements referenced within the speech, the one or more UI elements visible within the screen sharing session; and highlighting the one or more UI elements visible on the client device."

The pate...