ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,848, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to BARCO N.V. (Kortrijk, Belgium).

"Method and system for making functional devices available to participants of meetings" was invented by Gauthier Renard (Kuurne, Belgium) and Johan Peter Frans Degraef (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first peripheral device for making a functional device available to a processing device. The first peripheral device is configured to expose at least one fixed or configurable endpoint and to receive first processed video data. The first peripheral device is configured to process the first processed video data to generate second video data and to mak...