ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,463, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Event notifications for online meetings" was invented by Jay Kemper Johnston (Raleigh, N.C.), David C. White Jr. (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Magnus Mortensen (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for providing notifications about events that occur during an online meeting. For instance, a system may establish an online meeting, such as a video conferencing meeting, for users. While in the meeting, a first user may view video of a second user and determine that the second user is experiencing an emergency event. ...