ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,422, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Sustainability-aware virtual meetings" was invented by Carlos Pignataro (Cary, N.C.) and Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and processes for conducting sustainability-aware virtual meetings are described herein. When establishing virtual meetings, each of the participants can have various devices, locations, histories, and other data associated with them. This data can be packaged together as a user profile which can be transmitted to a virtual meeting service or a host that can receive t...