ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,508, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to C/HCA Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Data stream processing to facilitate conferencing based on protocols" was invented by Edmund Jackson (Nashville, Tenn.), Cody Hall (Nashville, Tenn.), William Gregg (Nashville, Tenn.), Jim Jirjis (Nashville, Tenn.), William Rice (Nashville, Tenn.), Warren Sadler (Nashville, Tenn.), Igor Ges (Nashville, Tenn.) and Annabaker Garber (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and machine-readable storage media for processing data streams in accordance with protocols to selectively transmit content to endpoint devices to facilitate conferencing...