US Patent Issued to Apple on April 29 for "Electronic conferencing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,350, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic conferencing" was invented by Xudong Liu (Campbell, Calif.), Huan He (Mountain View, Calif.), Nelson M. Leduc (San Jose, Calif.), Nicholas J. Circosta (Mountain View, Calif.) and Daniel B. Pollack (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology provide for secure, privacy-preserving access to electronic conferencing. In one or more implementations, a server may receive a request to contact an account via a service, the request including a service-specific alias for the account. The service-specific alias may be conf...