ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,387, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing audio input data and audio output data of virtual meetings" was invented by Hanna Madbak (Fort Lee, N.J.), Andrew M. Sills (Bloomington, Ind.), Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.), Kyle Beckemeyer (Park Ridge, Ill.) and Mathew Adams (Matthews, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatuses are described for managing audio data received from users during a virtual meeting. First and second users, co-located at a particular location, may be participating in the virtual meeting via a first and second computing devic...