ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,025, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BlackBerrry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Method and system for managing a meeting session" was invented by Neil Patrick Adams (Waterloo, Canada) and Ge Zhong (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and system for managing a meeting session. In accordance with one example, there is provided a method of managing a meeting session on a server that manages the meeting session, the meeting session comprising one or more participant devices and a presenter device. The method comprises receiving one or more break request messages from the participa...