ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,213, issued on May 20, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting violations in video conferencing" was invented by Lan Betty Ngoc Mai (Shoreline, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided in which a collaboration server connects at least two participants via respective user devices to a collaboration session. The collaboration server further detects a violation occurring during the collaboration session. The violation indicates an inappropriate activity or content from a participant of the at least two participants. Based on detecting the violation, the collaboration server performs at least...