US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 1 for "Bidirectional videoconference-related messaging for public switched telephone network participants" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,677, issued on July 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Bidirectional videoconference-related messaging for public switched telephone network participants" was invented by John Joseph Dunne (Bremertom, Wash.), Siddhartha Shankara Rao (Seattle) and Michael Mark Goodwin (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A videoconference among a plurality of participants may be hosted, wherein the plurality of participants comprise Internet Protocol (IP)-connected participants and a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)-connected participant. The IP-connected participants may send and receive audio content and ...