ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,505, issued on Oct. 14, 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, an electronic device may obtain a service-specific alias that is specific to a device-identified set of services. The service-specific alias may be separate from an accou...